<p>wow, very helpful . thank you 
RowanMD</p>
<p>membership at Institute of Medicine:
Stanford (60 members), Brown (3)</p>
<p>winners of USA presidential national medal of science:
Stanford (34 winners), Brown (1 winner)</p>
<p>@honestly, no problem. It’s a big decision, both are great schools with vastly different feel. I loved my time at both schools. </p>
<p>Undergrad is a time to open your mind, and expose yourself to open ended learning where YOU can make your own opinions while still relatively unaffected by adult dogma and responsibility. </p>
<p>[MIT</a> top US university for study, Brown ‘happiest’ - Local News Updates - MetroDesk - The Boston Globe](<a href=“http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/08/mit_top_us_univ.html]MIT”>http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/08/mit_top_us_univ.html)</p>
<p>The 2008 Center for College Affordability and Productivity (CCAP) ranked Brown 5th in the country among national universities."[43] As it had in 2007 and 2010, the 2011 Princeton Review email poll of college students ranked Brown 1st in the country for “Happiest Students.”<a href=“Wikipedia”>44</a></p>
<p>Good luck. At the very least you should be happy!</p>
<p>Brown has 600 university faculty members.
and 2000 medical school faculty members.</p>
<p>Stanford has 2000 university faculty members alone.
And probably more than 10000 medical faculty.</p>
<p>Prestige is very irrelevant in this case. The people who are smart enough eg. good employers, will not like one better because of the ‘prestige’ unless they have a connection to either school.
Each school has their own strong programs, and Brown is located in Providence, RI whilst Stanford in Palo Alto, CA. The environment is genuinely different.
One must research more into the schools if they are lucky enough to consider the two.</p>
<p>overall, stanford is stronger than brown</p>
<p>I agree that Stanford is stronger than Brown in every academic area.</p>
<p>Nobel Prizes
Stanford (51)
Brown (7)</p>
<p>[List</a> of Nobel laureates by university affiliation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_university_affiliation]List”>List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>However, for undergraduate education, the differences will be slight. For graduate school, it may be helpful to have attended Stanford for undergrad as its faculty recommendations carry more weight on average. Brown does have David Mumford, a Fields Medalist (an emiritus prof in applied math).</p>
<p>^You cant say STanford is stronger on the grounds that the school has more nobel prize winners than Brown. Stanford has way more staff than Brown.</p>
<p>You can’t compare potatoes and apples. And just for the sake of an anecdote, most people I know that are interested in humanities/non-science and math would go to Brown in a heartbeat over Stanford.</p>
<p>P.S. Get how I made brown and red food items? : D</p>