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<p>History of Art and Architecture is not a program, it's a department. Students are not accepted into this, they study within it, and can concentrate in it.</p>
<p>wmj, i often find that the face a college puts forth for their admissions criteria is not always an accurate one. For instance, saying SAT's don't matter...</p>
<p>Phead, Brown has never had to rescind admissions to an admitted student because they were murderers(Gina Grant) or frauds(Blair Hornstine and Kaayva Viswanathan). That's the reality, and I think it's because Brown's admissions process is both more personal and selective. To my knowledge, Brown also has never admitted and graduated a serial murderer and complete social misfit like Ted Kazinski either, again because it's more selective. By the way, the only reason Kaayva and Blair got caught is because of the immense stupidity of both. In Blair's case wanting to be considered number 1 in her high school class, despite disability compensations, and Kaayva for publishing material that was obviously plagiarized. Since these two got caught because of their egregious dumbness, it makes one wonder just how many unqualified people Harvard admits that were just a tad smarter than these two.</p>
<p>Pinder, you use the most esoteric garbage to back up your opinions. I can;t actually believe you are a brown student. So Harvard admits unqualified people because TWO people in their history have been frauds? </p>
<p>Its like when you recited 1973 SAT scores to argue why Brown was more selective than Dartmouth. WOW. You lose your arguments on your own.</p>
<p>what do the disability compensations have anything to do with anything...?</p>
<p>History of Art and Architecture certainly IS a department! Check your facts - because I know what I was accepted into!</p>
<p>Moot at this point since I'm going to UD.</p>
<p>didican you are confused. HIAA is a department but you do not get accepted into the department in the way you wrote it out. It's not a separate entity which accepts its own students. the only people who get accepted into a different program are the risd/brown people and the plme people.</p>
<p>Okay - I yield. But the letter I received said that I had been accepted for undergraduate study in Art and Architecture. I did not get accepted into the honors program, but did receive a nice merit award.</p>
<p>We don't have an honors program nor do we give merit aid like all the other Ivies. Are you sure you're talking about the same school?</p>
<p>I know EXACTLY what I'm talking about - and am really grateful that I chose not to attend - judging from your BS tone. SHEESH! Both my brother and father graduated from Brown.</p>
<p>My BS tone? Sorry. I thought that everyone else was getting a bit technical on you, but considering we have neither an honors program nor merit aid, I began to think you may have thought you were posting about a different school.</p>
<p>I didn't mean any offense, I was just rather confused by your clear confusion.</p>
<p>Brown accepts students to the university-college-- it doesn't matter what you put as your concentration choice. In fact, though it's been a while, I'm sure the letter is the same to everyone and makes no mention of departments. You can put down engineer on your app and never take an engineering course-- we internally are not divided that way. That fact led others to wonder what you meant.</p>
<p>Additionally, we do not provide any merit aid to anyone-- none of the Ivies offer merit or athletic scholarships, one of the distinguishing facts about the Ivy League. We also don't have any sort of honors college of any kind and never had. </p>
<p>So really, what you're saying is starting to sound weird since Brown does not have any of these three features.</p>
<p>I'm not doubting you, and frankly don't care, but I'm wondering the source of your continued confusion.</p>
<p>As a student in HIAA I know that we do not have an honors program. You CAN graduate with honors but anyone can opt into that, you don't have to be accepted. modest is right Brown does not give merit aid. I think you are confused. Why would you pick UD over Brown anyway? Just curious. Most people wouldn't do that.</p>
<p>Whatever you say modestmelody. I'm just a dumb kid holding letter in my hand. (not to mention the fact that my dad was on the phone to the admissions office twice a week.)</p>
<p>Bottom line - I chose UD.</p>
<p>Didican, you are all sorts of confused. First, no one gets merit aid. You just get financial aid (which might be titled "University Scholarship"). </p>
<p>Second, it might say that you were excepted to such-n-such field of study, but in the long run that piece of paper doesn't matter because you would have had to declare your major by the second semester of your sophomore year.</p>
<p>I applied to Brown with interests in Education/ Hispanic Studies/ Portuguese and Brazilian Studies.</p>
<p>After getting admitted I chose Geological Studies on the acceptance sheet.</p>
<p>Then I finally declared Sociology two years ago and will be receiving that degree on the 25th of this month.</p>
<p>You would have officially been a HIAA concentrator with intentions to do honors (usually done by writing an honors thesis and getting As in half of your classes) once you would have declared your sophomore year.</p>
<p>I didn't say you're a dumb kid... you're just saying things that we literally don't have structures for at Brown. Somewhere there is a communication breakdown or confusion here and I was just commenting on that as it appears to have continued throughout this thread.</p>
<p>Wolf -</p>
<p>LOL - unreal question. Because Brown does not offer a degree in Art Conservation and UD does. It is only one of three universities in North America with the program. Furthermore, the only reason I was accepted to Brown (in my opinion) is because my parents give them LOADS of money and have been dragging my brothers and sisters to their "galas" since I can remember.</p>
<p>The fact that you find it hard to believe that someone would choose to attend a university other than Brown - well - that says it all!</p>
<p>P.S. Sorry they didn't offer you any money.</p>
<p>Didn't offer who any money? Brown gives scholarships they just aren't merit based. Calm the attitude down some please, no one is attacking you and you are being very defensive.</p>
<p>Also, I never said anything that should lead you to believe I have an opinion where I think it's hard to believe people would choose another school other than Brown. It was the UD vs Brown decision I was interested in. All you had to say was "they offer a specific field I'm interested in" instead of jumping on me and coming to conclusions. Sounds like you have a chip on your shoulder with Brown's name on it.</p>
<p>YES YOU DID...you said.."Why would you pick UD over Brown anyway?" That is what you said. </p>
<p>I chose UD over Brown because I liked it better. Period.</p>
<p>oh...and if you don't think tat the Brown athletes are getting money...OH BOY...you are WAY wrong. :O</p>
<p>This is one of those times when I refuse to argue with a high schooler. Someone else take over.</p>
<p>There's really no getting around that it is. But I'm gonna apply ED because it is SO much more fun :P
...and because I have legacy >.></p>