<p>Did any of you have to make this decision? Was yale the right choice, any regrets? Brown seems like the happiest place,how about Yale? THANKS></p>
<p>My son is deciding between Yale and Brown PLME. He loves both places. Better financial aid at Yale vs guaranteed medical school (no MCATs, 3.0 GPA requirement).</p>
<p>Yale students are really, really happy. This is most likely due to the strong social cohesion and diversity that the residential colleges promote. You should definitely visit each school for their admitted students weekend and see which school you like more.</p>
<p>There is a thread going on right now about Yale vs. Wash U for someone who was also guaranteed admission into medical school. As far as I see it, if you have been a good enough student to get into Brown's PLME program, you'll also be able to get into medical school after college. Yale also has an amazing premed program which leads to great medical school placement for its students, with over 90% of premeds going to medical school.</p>
<p>Well Brown PLME is a different program completely from WashU. PLME is actually a guaranteed acceptance, the way you would look at it as a high school senior, since the requirements (3.0 and no mcat) are fairly lax. WashU, on the other hand, works you hard (3.8 and 38) - this is hardly a guarantee!</p>
<p>I did not apply to PLME at Brown because eventhough I am planning to go to med school, I did not want to be 'stuck" in the same school for 8 years... However, I believe that it is rather silly to take a chance of turning down a guaranteed admission to med school ( thru PMLE ) at this stage of the game, just to experience Yale as an undergrad... The overall undergrad experience is going to be more stressfull at Yale because you are thinking of needing a certain performance to get into med school all over again. Why would you even bother applying then to a PMLE program? It makes no sense whatosever...</p>
<p>Let's not derail this thread. The original poster did not mention that he/she had applied for Brown's PLME specifically--he/she is simply asking about Brown vs. Yale.</p>
<p>I honestly believe that Yale students are at least as happy as Brown students. There is just so much stuff to do at Yale and in the surrounding area of New Haven. The professors are great, the students are intelligent, motivated and interested, the 12 colleges promote interaction from the start, whereas at Brown it may be harder to find your niche...Student groups, activism, volunteerism, theatre, music--it's all there, and Yale students are at the top of their game regardless of the field they're playing on. While Brown may be more laid back and, well, "hippie-ish," that beyond-casual aura is falsely perceived as happiness, when it really represents a less interested and disengaged student body.</p>
<p>Yale is an absolutely wonderful place. It's an experience that so few are able to have, and I think it would be foolish to give it up for Brown. Even though Brown is a great school, it doesn't stack up to a place with such tradition and history and prosperity--and a long history of happy, successful students--as Yale.</p>
<p>yeah they are fairly similar schools. Yale definitely has more prestige, and is stronger academically. </p>
<p>the open curriculum in my view at brown, is rendered moot b/c yale also does not have strict requirements. Unless you intend to only take classes in one department, you'll have the ability to take pretty much the same set of classes at both schools.</p>
<p>What about class sizes at Yale and Brown? I heard that class sizes at Brown are relatively much larger?</p>
<p>i don't know about that. i suspect that it doesn't differ much.</p>
<p>77% of classes at Yale have under 20 people, whereas 67% of classes at Brown have under 20 people. So, yes, Yale has more classes with less than 20 people in them than Brown does.</p>
<p>source lanzabelle?</p>
<p>the kicker, of course is that at brown you choose your classes. if tiny seminars appeal to you most, those are the classes you will take because at brown the world is your oyster.</p>
<p>really though, introductory classes will be larger, advanced classes will be smaller. this will be true at both places. i can't speak very knowledgeably about yale, but at brown every faculty member is required to teach undergraduates (whether they have nobel prizes or used to be the president of brazil). as a result, the faculty is very accessible and approachable no matter how big of a deal they are. that's something i truly appreciate about being an undergrad at brown, particularly now that i'm a graduate student at harvard and see that undergrads at other places aren't so lucky.</p>
<p>^dcircle, in that regard, Yale is special (compared to its peers Princeton and -yuck- Harvard). It has that undergraduate focus as well. I believe every professor at Yale is required to teach undergrads, too.</p>
<p>Check each school's respective website, dcircle.</p>
<p>Students are Yale are happier than students at Brown. The academics and social scene at Yale is just so much more vibrant. I mean you're comparing the league of Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge (and just those four) with Emory, Tufts, Brown, Northwestern, Dartmouth and dozens of other mid-tier universities out there. There's just no comparison to be made.</p>
<p>Dude, for the fourth consecutive year, Brown has been ranked number ONE as having the happiest students. Harvard does not even make the top ten list, although Yale does. The rest of your comments are not even worthy of an intelligent response. I am sure the OP is getting a feel also of your intent and frustration.</p>
<p>Is this a joke? who would consider yale over brown?</p>
<p>not most. but about 1 out of every 5 cross admits. i did.</p>