<p>So, we have HYPMS, and then there's UPenn and a score of other schools. But why do you not here Brown discussed as often?</p>
<p>As we all know Brown's an Ivy. I think it's an amazing school. But when you hear good school's mentioned or top programs/departments, Brown's rarely on there. (i.e. top international relations program, or top economic programs, etc.)</p>
<p>Maybe it's just on CC, but why is that?</p>
<p>Because people don't realize that Brown is a hidden gem. But even so, the Brown forum has more threads than any of the other ivies, so that says something. And statistically Brown is the most popular ivy after HYP. So Brown's not doing that badly.</p>
<p>Brown carries the Ivy name and has a solid student body. It is pretty much all it has going for it.</p>
<p>At my school, over the past five years, Brown is the most-applied-to school.</p>
<p>Brown, along with Georgetown, Tufts, Rice and William & Mary are very overlooked on this board (along with and b/c of USNWR clones). They actually focus on trying to have selected grad programs but focus mainly on undergrads. A timeless concept that unfortunately seems pretty radical in todays world.</p>
<p>^I think Dartmouth to a slightly lesser extent also gets ignored on these boards.</p>
<p>I don't think Williams and Marry really fits with that list, as its not at there level. Its like any other school like it, asked about occasionally. Yet for Brown, I completely agree. It is very popular, very selective and has great academics. I highly doubt that is programs cannot match up with that of other top universities and on top of that it is prestigious.</p>
<p>I couldn't answer your question without violating the rule. It just isn't done.</p>
<p>What programs is Brown actually good at? Its best programs aren't even on par with most of the schools they are ranked with or above. </p>
<p>Aside from Ivy league status, pretty incredible selectivity, supreme popularity (Brown is popular at my school too), and ugh...strong student body, it really doesn't have much else going for them.</p>
<p>Excellent philosophy and classics departments, pretty good history, English, comp lit. What's not to like?</p>
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<p>Thats the kicker, for me and I think a lot of students ,that is more important than some "ranking of the departments." What you just listed, makes it prestigous and makes it a hot spot for recruiters. Forget for a second, everyone loves Brown, it also offers great future oppurtunities. I don't think the fact that I could be learning political science at Brown instead of say Michigan (everyone says its very good there) will matter at all. I bet it will not make any difference at all in what I learn or how I feel about the course. Department rankings for undergrad are overplayed, they are much more important in grad school, when they directly affect your employment. I would say a majority of ivy league kids major in something wholly unrelated to their future career choice anyway.</p>
<p>^ So what are you saying. What is the reason why Brown is not discussed often in threads such as top economics or top political science or top anything so much?</p>
<p>To address OP's original question, Brown is not discussed because it is not ranked highly in the department rankings. </p>
<p>I'm not trying to be mean or anything, just being honest. More specificially, I'm referring to T10 schools.</p>
<p>I totally agree with you, Brown is worth its own weight in gold. The question was specific, you just gotta straight up answer it the best you can. Brown is a definite top school no doubt. Brown is more of a school for students who has many interests, keen on learning, feel that freedom to learn new ideas is essential. They are not dead on to a single thing or subject, they like the Brown curriculumn because of the variety of learning that it canoffer. Its for a totall different person, a person that would want to override the strength of program choice for better more varied and broader overall learning in general. lol Thats the sterotype I have.</p>
<p>I thought Brown was one of the top schools in the country for neuroscience, computer science, international relations and history.
Anyway, I don't think the rankings of individual departments should mean much anyway. Brown is strong across the board instead of having one or two areas of study that rank through the roof while its other departments lag behind.
Also, Brown boasts an impressive 95% acceptance rate of premed students to their top 3 choices of med school. And considering the caliber of Brown students, the choices of med school they're probably looking at are Harvard, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, etc which all have abysmally low acceptance rates. And Brown also seems to have a good connection with the UN, it's almost as if there's a funnel that connects the two together. </p>
<p>So Brown does boast more than an awesome curriculum (or lack thereof) and an incredible student body. US News really needs to give Brown the props it deserves.</p>
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<p>Agreed. A lot of people just don't get the awesomeness that is Brown :)</p>
<p>The T-shirt doesn't have much cachet. Like a Princeton T-shirt is orange, and Yale is blue, and Harvard crimson....and when one walks around with a Brown T-shirt passers-by are like, "is that supposed to be funny that your shirt says its brown?"</p>
<p>Brown is awesome. So is Providence!!!!</p>
<p>Brown is weird.
It is kinda like a LACs of Research Universities.</p>
<p>It is the jack of all trades,master of none.Their science are dwarfed by Harvard,MIT and Cornell.</p>
<p>Their medical school is good,but small and just start accepting normal applications a few years ago.</p>
<p>They have no law or business school.</p>
<p>Standout program their are geology and Anthropology and Being Liberal....thats it.Brown breeds hippies. I am from Rhode Island and it is true.</p>
<p>Muffy Providence sucks.
We got a mall and a new nice streets and something stupid called Water Fire the mystify people from OOS...It is dull, It is gray,It is boring.</p>
<p>Providence pales in comparison to Boston.</p>
<p>Providence does suck, Its anything and everything but awesome. Delusional Brown fans... lol boasting about Providence.</p>
<p>*They have no law or business school.
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<p>Neither does Princeton. In fact, Princeton doesn't have a medical school either, while Brown does have one. So I guess Princeton is a pretty trashy place, huh? </p>
<p>It is the jack of all trades,master of none.Their science are dwarfed by Harvard,MIT and Cornell.</p>
<p>Being a jack of all trades is a lot better than being good at a few specific things. One of MIT's pitfalls is that it's so focused on math/science/engineering that any other department, like English literature (I'm not even sure if they have this or not) would be left in the dust. That's not good, now is it? </p>
<p>Providence pales in comparison to Boston.</p>
<p>Perhaps, but it is better than New Haven, and if anyone ever wanted to go to Boston, it's only an hour train ride away. Besides, Providence is really nice up in the college hill neighborhood, where Brown is located.</p>