<p>Stanford…</p>
<p>Brown’s open curriculum just fits me perfectly, for I do not have a strong leaning toward a typical major. I want to explore; I want the freedom, and having a school that believes in that and backing me up is superb. I have become friends w/ several admits, and they are chill as hell. Our personalities def. work with one another.</p>
<p>Stanford on the other hand has given me an awesome finaid package. Location is good.
dot dot dot…</p>
<p>I am leaning toward the business/entrepeneurial side, with strong interests in becoming fluent in several foreign languages and psychology/neursci-ish.</p>
<p>Can you put it this way?
Your heart says Brown but your head says Stanford due to the better reputation?</p>
<p>Well, somebody else in this forum said the same thing about Harvard and Brown…(At least I guess…)
If you tell somebody you went to Stanford his/her eyes will pop out.
If you say you went to Brwon he/she will probably smile and say I heard that’s a great place for undergraduate studies…</p>
<p>Do you want the KICK ASS Hock in your CV, don’t think, go to Stanford.
(I guess I couldn’t resist btw…)
If you don’t care that much, come to Brown…</p>
<p>Dumb post is dumb.</p>
<p>With the large number of self-employed alumni (greater than 10%. <a href=“Office of Institutional Research | Brown University”>Office of Institutional Research | Brown University), Commerce Organization and Entrepreneurship concentration ([Commerce</a>, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship](<a href=“Business, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations | Brown University”>http://www.coe.brown.edu/)), top neuro/cog sci programs, etc, Brown is a killer place for you to be.</p>
<p>Stanford doesn’t get any more eye-pop on the East Coast than Brown does, for what it’s worth, and Brown may match financial aid offers elsewhere-- you should be in contact with Financial Aid here.</p>
<p>Well I don’t know that much about Browns reputation in the US, but internationally speaking I have to say, that Stanford is the school to go.(Based on Reputation)</p>
<p>Outside of the US people know Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford…that’s it. (Sad but true)
And don’t say you’ll never work outside of the US; you never know…</p>
<p>you gotta be careful who you take advice from on here people. i would avoid taking advice from other highschool students jumpngo</p>
<p>they didnt’ match stanford’s financial aid… i appealed it once. would it be possible for them to appeal my aid again and match stanford’s aid if i said that i would commit and def. come to brown if they did?.. dot dot dot</p>
<p>i’m trying to give advice with regards to your preferences. as far as business/entrepreneurial opportunities goes, stanford is really an exceptional place. i think proximity with bay area (great biomedical research going on there) and silicon valley (all the IT stuff) definitely helped in this respect.</p>
<p>that is not to say that brown is not great in that matter; there’s something unique about the entrepreneurial spirit at brown – be it a new, better tasting ketchup, or a music-linked social networking site, or a patent for prosthetic limb… i think net on net, brown produces more quirky and eclectic entrepreneurs, and you see them all over different disciplines!</p>
<p>oo… “eclectic” describes me and is very appealing… very…i look for the unconventional.</p>
<p>I love Brown to death and im going there next year; but in this case I would pick Stanford over Brown and I say so because of the Financial Aid. In my opinion, you want to be able to have as little debt as you can. Both schools have amazing reputation nationally and both would be great for your interests.
In my opinion also want to visit both campuses and see how they “feel”. Brown is truly a magical place and the people are great. Stanford is great, but the thing about Stanford is that they have more focus in their Graduate department rather than their undergraduate. Brown excels in their undergraduate program. However is all up to you and how you feel (the “gut” feeling is really important).</p>
<p>hrmmm what about gut feeling V.S. Money?.. lol</p>
<p>Depends on how much we’re talking and how much that would or wouldn’t be a burden to me or my family.</p>
<p>I’m surprised Brown wouldn’t adjust the package at all. Have you asked for a projection of what your package will look like over the next four years and not just for next year? It may change dramatically-- it did for me and that’s why I knew I’d be able to go to Brown.</p>
<p>They adjusted it a little bit. But its still a 10k difference between Stanford and Brown package; and No, I did not ask them about the package for the next four years–I will do that during adoch or through email? Which would be more effective?</p>
<p>i would actually give the financial aid office a call. nothing beats a real conversation with someone, and ADOCH may be busy (both on your end and theirs).</p>
<p>I hope you come to Brown, but here’s the only questions you need to ask yourself:</p>
<p>1) Is the debt I’ll accrue because of the difference between the Brown and Stanford packages so much that I’ll not make it back without burdening my current/future family?</p>
<p>2) Am I going into a field where the alumni network at Stanford benefits me more than the one at Brown?</p>
<p>I mean, you’re deciding between two great places, so taking the cheaper one is hardly making a sacrifice. So just see how much the debt at the one will affect you, basically. And for the alumni network thing, that’s half the reason you go to HYPS. If you’re not going to take advantage of that or be interested enough to take advantage of all the extra resources at those places, you should really go to the place that fits you best, and that sounds like Brown, although it seems like you’re looking to go into something Businessy, so Stanford might help you better there.</p>
<p>Thats great insight amadeuic. Thank you. How signinficant is alumni networking? Can you provide some examples? I’ve never thought of the HYPS that way…</p>
<p>Well, if you’re going into business or something that’s very, very “who you know,” it’s important to know people, and the people who went to Harvard and Stanford wherever have risen to the top more frequently (whether through U-grad or Business school), and they are all fiercely loyal to their school and will look to extend a hand to fellow alumni.</p>
<p>It’s just the way it works.</p>
<p>Can you do this with a Brown degree, too? Of course.</p>
<p>It’s just a bit easier with Stanford, though, IMO, although I am basing a lot of this argument off of how Harvard alumni operate.</p>
<p>hmmm very very useful information. keep it coming amadeuic.</p>
<p>Well, I can only tell you as much as I’ve personally dealt with.</p>
<p>But as you know, there are many, many people who go to Harvard because it’s Harvard or Princeton because it’s Princeton, and there really isn’t anything wrong with that. However, these people tend to be the ones who are a little wavering on their decision in the future. My uncle was a Harvard grad and went on to become a college professor. He comes from a long line of Harvard lineage, but he flat-out told me it was a mistake for him to go. He says he would have gotten a better education at Amherst, where it was more personalized and centered on learning, and that he should have gone there instead. He told me that he thinks there are only two people who benefit from a Harvard-type education, as I’ve mentioned above: those who are going to use the alumni networking to benefit themselves in the workplace and those who are going to be self-motivated and determined enough to seek out all of the advantages that Harvard has, because it’ll give them to you, but you have to find your way there on your own. His son went to Stanford, by the way, and said that his son benefited about as much from a Stanford education as much as he did from his Harvard education, i.e. not that much.</p>
<p>That being said, had I been offered admission at HYPS, I’m fairly certain I wouldn’t have been able to say no to them. Most people can’t. And it’s not like they necessarily should, either. It’s just a matter of knowing yourself as a person. Can you fit into one of those two categories? Is it really that big of a deal if you don’t? Is Brown where you really want to go?</p>
<p>I can’t answer those for you…</p>
<p>EDIT: For what it’s worth, though, he really does hold Brown in a high regard. He was much, much happier about me going here instead of the other places I was considering (University of Chicago, Notre Dame Honors College (his wife, my aunt, went to ND for grad school), etc.). I am really, really pumped for Brown and can’t tell you how excited I am for it. I’m just trying to help you make the right choice.</p>
<p>omg you’re a beast. and you’re basically in the same boat I am—referring to age. not to judge people based on age, but I have yet to meet someone that is able to give such wise advice—like i do 
to my peeps—until now. Much thanks. I am doing everything in my power to eliminate this financial thorn in this decision. Then, we shall see at ADOCH & admit weekend @ stanford.</p>