More Presitige? Duke vs. Brown

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<p>I suspect a lot of my Canadian friends only know of Brown because of Family Guy and The OC, the latter especially. People have remarked to me "You're gonna go to school with Summer!" numerous times. I always thought that people thought of Brown as Harvard Jr., but now, it's more like the cool Ivy.</p>

<p>Brown fits the Ivy ideal pretty well: elite and cloistered in a NE setting. I think Columbia's harder to get into, but it's not in NE, and it's too urban. I didn't even know it was an Ivy League university until quite recently. So I agree that after HYP, Brown is the next most prestigious Ivy, whatever that means.</p>

<p>Anyway, I just sent in my acceptance package yesterday, so I'll be seeing all you 2010 Brunonians come September.</p>

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<p>^^ the only reason people know about Brown at my school is because of the OC lol</p>

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<p>Don't the rankings matter?
Brown is 15
Duke is 5</p>

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<p>Not regarding prestige.</p>

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<p>no...no they don't.
nobody thinks penn (4) and duke (5) should be ranked higher than MIT (7) or rice (17)</p>

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<p>I thought rankings were about nothing but prestige.</p>

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<p>Rankings are up to interpretation, they don't mean anything per se. No1 thinks Penn and Duke should be ranked higher than Rice? That's not true.</p>

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<p>i think rice is the perfect example of the flaws in usnwr
it is much smaller than other schools on the list but has many more times the resources per student (so much so that the tuition is the lowest of its peer schools by far) and is more selective. the only thing placing it so far below duke and wustl is size</p>

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<p>there are about 10 schools in a murky area after HYPSMC as far as "prestige" is concerned; posts like "Brown vs Duke: which is more prestigious" or "Columbia vs Penn: which is better" or "Dartmouth vs Rice: which do I go to if I don't want to fail at life" are pretty dumb. HTH</p>

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<p>"murky area" im really sick of all this prestige crap.</p>

<p>go to the one that fits you. brown and duke are very different.</p>

<p>if you're an ******* athlete who wants to drink his/her way through frat/sorority parties go to duke</p>

<p>if you're a liberal nut who thinks they're better/smarter than everyone else and that you're too good for requirements, go to brown.</p>

<p>seriously, not that hard to choose.</p>

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<p>Rankings dont really count for that much, since they take into account random differences like percentage of alumni that donate, etc.. Stuff like that clearly wont make a difference to you for your undergrad experience, so id disagree with quite a few of those rankings..</p>

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<p>It depends on what area you want to go into as well...Brown definetely has top humanities, including an awesome literature program and arts program, Duke has more of a businessy and sciency edge that goes with pre-professionalism</p>

<p>Also...students at Duke seem to be looking forward to six-figured starting salaries, while students at Brown look forward to learning and curiousity a bit more...probably not good to play on this stereotype</p>