Question about BROWN University/ and school rankings in General

College Search & Selection
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<p>The WSJ does not take geographic preferences and makeup of student body into account. It is a good start, but it requires some work. Generally speaking, very little separates the top universities when it comes to graduate school chances and employment opprtunities.</p>

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<p>swimguy112 makes me want to repeatedly stab myself in the face with a rusty utensil.</p>

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<p>Yeah, sorry I am pointing out flaws in your godly way of looking at not-so-amazing colleges.</p>

<p>Truly, I am.</p>

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<p>WSJ does not take into account how many people applied to those schools. Let's say that only one person from let's say the University of Illionois applies to Harvard Law School, and that person gets in.</p>

<p>Then at the same time, 500 people from Brown apply, but only 58 get in. Which is the better pre law school?</p>

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<p>re: swimguy: rofl.</p>

<p>Unfortunately, I just hurt myself from rofling too hard because, after going to a poorly ranked (yet devastatingly underrated!) college, I am so poor that I can only afford furniture made from stones that I steal from rich people's beautifully landscaped yards. Damn it. I guess I shouldn't have taken ROFL 101 pass/fail. </p>

<p>You got me. :(</p>

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<p>what? Are you saying that I only look highly upon highly ranked colleges as determined by USNWR?</p>

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I am starting to hate this website. Everyone here is a postsecondary educational snob.

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<p>Isn't that the point of the site?</p>

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Oh, and the fact that Brown is basically joined at the hip with RISD (considered to be the Harvard of the art world)

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Ummm wouldn't that be Juliard? Or Curtis?</p>

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For example, Johns Hopkins and Harvard each produced 320 med school applicants last year while Penn (a much larger school) only produced 350 applicants

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I've always felt the mythical Penn pre-professional obsession was just that. </p>

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I would argue that Dartmouth and Brown DO things Penn doesn't. More attention from professors for one.

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Now there is something on which I simply must disagree. While I have no doubt Dartmouth spends more money on their undergrads, it doesn't mean Penn cannot do a similarly marvelous job.</p>

<p>Broooooown.</p>

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<p>Ilovebagels, the point of this website is to advise students and displell myths and fallacies. Whether we do that or not is obviously entirely debatable! hehe!</p>

<p>And you cannot compare RISD to Julliard or Curtis. RISD is the #1 visual arts program in the US (one of the top 2 or 3 at the worst). Julliard and Curtis are for the performing arts.</p>