<p>Can anyone give me a reason that one trumps the other with respect to undergraduate neuroscience education??? I thought I loved Brown hands down until I visited Duke this weekend…it is sooooooooo beautiful and the kids are damn smart too… :(</p>
<p>Come to Duke!! Neuroscience at Duke is great. And you have all the advantages of the top-5 medical school right on campus for research internships, etc...</p>
<p>Oh yea, and did you go inside any of the buildings at Brown? Because if you think Duke trumps Brown in exterior appearances (which it definitely does) you should go take a look inside the dorms, classrooms, at Brown, it looks really run down--Duke DEFINITELY trumps Brown in maintenance! And the gardens, chapel, weather, atmosphere...how can you turn that down?</p>
<p>What buildings did you go into and which residences would you say look run down? Brown has a more eclectic design than does Duke with its' gothic style. I can't speak to neuroscience. I can say that Duke has a rather extensive core and that the school has a very southern character because it accepts 14% of the class from North Carolina and a very large percentage from the south in general. Duke's greek system is also much more of a force on campus (30% I think) than is Brown's (10% or less). I hear Durham isn't the greatest either, but then I hear Duke's dining is rather good. So, I don't know, just some points to consider.</p>
<p>both schools are very strong in the neurosciences, but i'm biased towards the undergrad neuroscience education at brown because i'm a product of it. important things to consider are:</p>
<p>1) access to top faculty--every faculty member advises undergrads and works with undergrads on the neuroscience honors thesis including people like Leon Cooper (nobel laureate), David Berson (Science's top ten most important contributions to the field), and John Donoghue (creator of the BrainGate)
<a href="http://neuroscience.brown.edu/faculty_areas.html%5B/url%5D">http://neuroscience.brown.edu/faculty_areas.html</a></p>
<p>2) the academic program & course offerings--brown has a carefully designed undergrad neuroscience curriculum that consistently sends students to top graduate programs and medical schools
<a href="http://neuroscience.brown.edu/undergrad_courses.html%5B/url%5D">http://neuroscience.brown.edu/undergrad_courses.html</a></p>
<p>3) how interdisciplinary is the program? neuroscience is an area of study that draws on multiple fields. brown recognized this early on by forming the Brain Sciences program
<a href="http://www.brainscience.brown.edu/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.brainscience.brown.edu/index.html</a></p>
<p>4) what are the facilities like?
Brown is scheduled to complete a new $95 million building to house the department by next year. In addition research occurs at many of the affiliated teaching hospitals, a new molecular biology building, and the metcalf laboratories on the main campus
<a href="http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2003-04/03-041.html#LSB%5B/url%5D">http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2003-04/03-041.html#LSB</a></p>
<p>how can anyone compare a program at duke with a program at brown? duke is a solid school but it is not in brown's class. if duke didn't have basketball it would be another elon or a davidson.</p>
<p>That is quite possibly one of the most ignorant statements ever made. If Duke is so horrible then why did your daughter apply (and then get rejected)? Stop trashing Duke, your bitterness is painfully transparent:</p>
<p>"daughter accepted at dartmouth,brown, william and mary, scripps, lafayette,and dickinson. waitlisted at swarthmore and upenn. <<rejected at="" duke="" and="" yale="">>"</rejected></p>
<p>ha ha YES
and duke is only getting better :D</p>
<p>incollege, if it is true that you chose duke over princeton then i think your ability to evaluate schools is certainly questionable,at best.</p>
<p>ummm....okay...whatever you say... I would have chosen Brown over Princeton too... is it really that bad to have chosen a school at which I am having an amazing time rather than go to a school that didn't fit me as well?</p>
<p>brown is on the cutting edge of neuro research, and they just joined their graduate program with NIH. NIH. NIH!!</p>