Strong Undergraduate English Departments

<p>To answer your questions: Re accessibility, I think that my experience as an English major is typical of most concentrations within the university, rather than just the English department. Givent the relative lack of graduate students/programs, especially pre-professional ones like law or business, I have always felt that Brown really does focus on the undergraduate experience, as they form the core of the university. Professors in other departments have been equally accessible - though of course, in all cases, you do have to seek them out - by going to office hours etc. </p>

<p>Given that I am now a senior, I have taken something in the range of 13 English classes. Of those, the only real lecture size ones were the 3 course sequence required of all English majors by the department. Those were around 90 people, but also had a discussion section every week. Other than that pretty much everything has been discussion sized - from 5 people to around 25.</p>

<p>I'm sorry I don't really know how many people are going to grad school - those kind of figures might be available from the department itself. I feel like a lot of people do double major, but this is a common trend accross the university. The lack of distribution requirements make it much easier than at most places, as all you need to do is fulfill the concentration requirements of the two majors.</p>

<p>Kismet: Thanks for the info!</p>

<p>From the Department of Corrections:
I previously wrote . . .
"An aside: Based on some of D-1's contemporaries and other people we know over the past few years, while the Ivies are on record as NOT giving out merit scholarships, it does seem that the "quality" of their offered financial assistance packages varies depending on the quality of the student. A cynic might consider this a "merit scholarship" of a sort (since, say, $15K in grants is a whole lot different than a package of $3K grant, $3K work study, and $12K loans)."</p>

<p>Of course, I should have reviewed my blurb before sending out so that I wouldn't get basic ADDITION wrong!!! I was spouting the conventional wisdom that $15K in grants (a/k/a a "discount") is better than $15K comprised of say $3K grant, $3K work study, and $9K loans! Duh! :)</p>