<p>can you really compare the two? open vs. distribution requirements.. liberal arts vs. pre-professional...</p>
<p>what are the pros and cons of both schools? i am having difficulty deciding which to apply to, even though i might just apply to both. everything you know, please.</p>
<p>lastly, which one would you pick and why?</p>
<p>open vs distribution: Penn's distribution requirements aren't really that big of a deal to complete, at least not for me. Unless you refuse to take a science or history class, it's not going to be too much of a burden to graduate from Penn. Even at Brown, the advisors strongly encourage you to step out of your comfort zone, so don't think it'll be a place where you can just speicalize and not take any classes outside of your interest areas.</p>
<p>liberal arts vs preprofessional: Brown is probably the least preprofessional Ivy and Penn is probably the most. It depends how you look at it. I would probably go crazy if it seemed like my classmates had 0 direction by the end of junior year. At the same time other people don't like how at Penn lots of people come in saying "I'm going to be a doctor" and "I'm going to be a banker." Granted, many change their minds, it's not the right atmosphere for some people.</p>
<p>The pros and cons depend a lot on what you want. I'd say my biggest problem with Penn is that there isn't enough emphasis on sports as there would be at a big state school. You'll get even less of it at Brown, so there was no going there for me anyway.</p>
<p>penn all the way!
penn just seems like a better school to me =/</p>
<p>I know that Penn has a really good faculty though</p>
<p>PENN! This thread is just ridiculous.</p>
<p>That's not to say that Brown has no pre-professionals and Penn has no liberal artsy students. Stereotypes, while awesome, aren't perfect.</p>
<p>I preferred the academic breadth at Penn that Brown simply didn't have. Penn let me take classes in the business school, the law school, etc. Curriculum requirements were mostly satisfied by my own natural inclinations, and only required me enrolling in 3 classes I wouldn't have otherwise taken--and of those three, I ended up loving two. So Penn forced me out of my comfort zone, but it was ultimately for my own good.</p>
<p>Given that both schools are a) excellent and b) pretty damn hard to get into, I'd just apply for both and see what your choices are from there.</p>