<p>yes, they are all relatively seamlessly connected. i guess i just realized that i' more of a small-scale urban person, rather than a suburban-village person. if that makes any sense? lol, but a lot of my friends are applying to Pomona and the other CCs. most people at my school aren't applying to anything other than UCs. my friends and I are pictured as the audacious ones, because we're applying to privates</p>
<p>I'm applying to Grinnell (open curriculum, like brown), NYU (great philosophy program), and of course the UCs (ELC student, so that's pretty much a given).</p>
<p>i would recommend: </p>
<p>Vassar
Oberlin
Tufts
Yale
Stanford
Pomona
Maybe Dartmouth. </p>
<p>It all depends on what your criteria is.</p>
<p>Why Stanford?</p>
<p>I am actually relieved that I don't really have to submit more than two schools after I hear back from Brown. If i don't get in, I just need NYU and Maryland to go in and I am done.</p>
<p>I'm looking for strong sciences AND arts programs, as well as the right vibe (i.e. liberal/artsy/activist or something along those lines....) SO:
oberlin, wesleyan, swarthmore, bowdoin, macalester, lewis & clark, university of puget sound</p>
<p>its funny because brown is kinda right in the middle between lacs and universities...a lot of the people i know applying are applying to many smaller lacs, while for me my only lacs are cmc and scripps because combining them, like earl said, makes it med-sized at least. It's weird so many people here are applying to claremont schools...where i live, no one has heard of them.
besides those, too many ivys (which was a stupid choice... cornell, upenn, columbia)(but for anyone looking at cornell it's an amazing school and i'd recommend it. although def different than brown), william and mary, NYU, maybe american</p>
<p>stanford because it had great academics in a lot of fields and a laid back, liberal student body. quite like brown.</p>
<p>I thought about Cornell, but what makes it so great? I've heard mixed things about it, like the weather, size, etc.</p>
<p>Why do people apply to both columbia and brown? one has a very rigorous core and the other has absolutely no requirements. it seems to me you'd get a completely different atmosphere at both schools. so why apply to two completely opposite colleges?</p>
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<p>OMG, Pomona was the WORST campus visit for my D, and I must agree. The campus felt suffocating, and so did the atmosphere described by the tour guide. Apparently, quite a few of the profs refuse to accept assignments without the student sitting down to talk about ANYTHING with them first. Sure, personal attention is helpful, and this is the strength of any LAC, but just shoving it down somebody's throat like that sounded atrocious.</p>
<p>Then there was the tour guide.... Majored in bio "not because I liked it, but because I did OK in bio 101". Graduating in a few months, with no job plans and no offers... "I am not really sure what I want to do". OMG, didn't the admissions office screen her before assigning her to represent the school?</p>
<p>I liked the campus. The way Pomona was described to me, with lots of interaction with professors is actually really appealing. I haven't heard anything like that about assignments, but I'm sure the professors are all very reasonable. It's not for everyone and perhaps not for me either, but I would not mind eating dinner at half of my professors homes.</p>
<p>The major thing sounds like a joke. I waaay prefer schools and environments that are not career or vocation focused. I also have full confidence that a degree from Pomona is held in the highest regard by employers/grad schools.</p>
<p>i like columbia's core and i like that brown has no requirements. i don't know, i guess i am weird like that, but i don't think you have to like one over the other</p>
<p>I'm the same way, cecils. My counselor didn't understand it.</p>
<p>no i'm the same. Because Columbia's core isn't 'ok two maths, one language, two lab sciences, one physical science, and gym,' it's classes designed especially for freshmen. They're interdisciplinary and about more than just making sure you know how to do different kind of things - they're about making sure you know how to think!
And as to why is cornell great, I'm a bit biased - I live in Ithaca. It doesn't have the best reputation of the ivys, but what people say is easiest to get into, hardest to stay in. Cornell works you hard but leaves you knowing a lot. Plus if you live in state you can get state tuition in some of the schools:-).</p>
<p>It's a valid question.</p>
<p>School one: "Here are classes to help you think. We've picked them for you"</p>
<p>School two: "We know you're smart enough to pick the classes that make you a better learner. Here's a catalog"</p>
<p>Would you go into a book store and have the attendant force you to read books <em>he</em> thinks will make you a better learner?</p>
<p>It's pretty black/white to me, I still don't feel the question was adequately answered.</p>
<p>But if there's no reason and you're "just weird like that", I guess it can't be helped. Just kinda weird how there are 6 other Ivies that are much more similar to Brown than Columbia is. As it stands, those two are pretty much polar opposites academics wise (and isn't that all we care about?).</p>
<p>Maybe the people who also really like Columbia would pick the same kind of classes at Brown that would have been chosen for them at Columbia.</p>
<p>^^^^exactly. i can see why you wouldn't like the core if you don't want to take those classes, but i think they are all pretty interesting.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that the student body is vastly different between the two schools, and the learning environment itself is as black and white as it gets. Brown breathes cooperation, Columbia thrives off of competition.</p>
<p>^do you go to columbia?</p>