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TopicRank This Crap #134 - Ivy League Schools
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09/29/11 8:41:00 PM
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-Brown is a fruity place for hippies with no academic standards where you can pass/fail your way to a degree.

a) our acceptance rate was lower than yours this year (8.7% vs somewhere above 10%). "no standards" my ass.


Don't go to either school, but I want to point out that that may be precisely why Brown's acceptance rate is lower!

b) most Brown people don't pass/fail their way to a degree - that's a false stereotype. most of us who want to go to grad school are taking all the courses we can to a degree (there are some that are mandatory satisfactory/no credit, but those are mostly intro courses).

Brown does give very high grades compared to other schools, and this is an advantage to students who apply to grad school. Medical and law schools at least care a lot about your undergrad GPA, and very little about the context (it matters very little how hard your school or your major is, or how impressive your GPA is relative to your classmates).

From a student's point of view, these are good things about Brown.

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