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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Other  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright Though an ivy league school of great notoriety, Brown has started to slip in the past few years. Yes, the professors and classes will still run you into the ground, if that"s what you're in to. But if you went to college to party and have a good time, you will be severely disappointed. Be ready for on and off weekends, and lots of nights just chilling with your boys in a dorm room doing generally nothing. Thursdays are almost guaranteed to be lame, and most Friday and Saturday nights end around 1 am because that's when the frats run out of alcohol. Not to mention, to get into the frat you usually have to wait in line for about an hour because the University plants monitors at the parties who don't let the brothers pack the house the way it should be. Also the University does nothing to help its students beyond providing teachers; it is the stingiest, most uncaring corporation in the world of higher education. The food is shit, the social groups are shit, and instead of helping them out, Ruth Simmons and her cronies skim all the profits to pad their own salaries. Its like a microcosm of America for the past four years (Brown gave a total of $900,000 to ALL its student groups last year to support an undergraduate class of 6000... this is out of a budget of hundreds of millions of dollars, by the way, and that's not including money from investments, endowment funds, or donations). About the only good thing Brown has going for it is the open curriculum. That is, outside your major, you can take whatever you feel like. That's why I recommend taking a major with very few requirements, like Lit Arts (10 classes), so you can fully utilize this. Now, the people here are not that bad. Most of them are interesting enough to give the time of day, though granted there are a lot of very cold, condescending assholes (mostly the attractive women... what a shocker - which, I should mention, there are much fewer of than one would expect). However, there are some cool people who like to party till 5 am every weekend, but by party I mean getting drunk with dudes in the nearly empty frat bar. Its really just oppressive. I highly recommend NOT applying here, unless you have no desire to party at all during college. Then you'll be pleasantly surprised every once in a while. Oh, and did I mention the parties suck? Like seriously, way lacking on the rampant alcoholism, drug use, and sex that I hear about from all my friends around the country. If you come here, be rich enough to afford being an alcoholic for the next 4 years so you can forget about the lack of fun. Innovation: A+, Individual Value: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Sep 28 2008 1st Year Male -- Class 2011    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=54568&uid=1226'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   History/Histories (art history/etc.)  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright Brown, academically, is stellar. Most of the students here excelled in high school, but everyone I know here is challenged by their classes. It's not uncommon to spend upwards of 8 hours in the library at a time just to get by with a B on a paper. The resources are great, faculty are brilliant (although not very accessible, because most of them prioritize their research projects over students), and you can definitely plan on having your degree respected. The non-academic sides of Brown are sub-par, however. Crime is rampant. Quite frequently (once/twice a week), I would check my e-mail and find a university-wide crime alert about an armed robbery or rape that occurred in a Brown parking lot or outside one of the dorms. Brown's campus generally feels safe, but there is a lot of overlap between it and the surrounding area of Providence, which is NOT somewhere you want to be at night. I had my room broken into, my bike got stolen right off its lock (it was the fifth one that day), and my car was hit in a hit-and-run right behind my dorm-- and I'm just one student. Socially, Brown was a poor choice for me, but plenty of people like it. A lot of my fellow classmates had never "experimented" with anything in high school as a result of being so focused on academics, so a large majority of the students here go dangerously out-of control with this newfound freedom. I did some research, and Brown has over 50% of the alcohol-related ambulance calls as Penn State, which is 8 times as large. I was quite the social butterfly in high school and enjoyed partying, but if you're even a semi responsible drinker, Brown is a bad match for you. Overall, Brown isn't about balance. It's about "Working EXTREMELY HARD, and playing EXTREMELY HARD." If you're a happy, laid-back, and well-rounded individual, it's not a good choice. It's hard to say "no" to having Brown's name on your degree, but I'm being brave and leaving it because I can't take this for the next couple years. Extracurricular Activities: A, Faculty Accessibility: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Jan 03 2008 1st Year Female -- Class 2011    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=43149&uid=1226'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Anthropology  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright Although I went to Brown hoping to find the "open-minded" and "intellectual" atmosphere that is flaunted by there brochures, website, and US News and World Report, all I found were students with nearly unlimited bank accounts, whose parents had likely been the reason for their acceptance. Rather than taking advantage of the coreless curriculum and developing a unique major, students were mostly lazy and unfocused. Furthermore, as someone who very much leans on the left side of the political spectrum, I was excited about the prospect of being in a liberal environment, but "liberal" doesn't even scratch the surface of Brown's atmosphere. The students (and some of the professors, even) won't tolerate even moderately liberal view points; it's all or nothing. This is the only time when students actually get riled up...most of the time they are just apathetic. Scholastic Success: A, Useful Schoolwork: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Mar 30 2007 2nd Year Female -- Class 2009    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=37254&uid=1226'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Economics  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright Members of the student body censor and often make personal attacks towards those (other students or guest speakers) whose ideas do not conform to left-wing ideology. Then again, this commonly occurs at other Ivies. Friendliness: A+, Campus Maintenance: C+ Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Feb 28 2007 1st Year Male -- Class 2010    Forward  Blog it! 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