Brown University

Date: Jan 12 2003
Major: Computer Science (This Major's Salary over time)
Brown is somewhat unlike the other Ivies. If you just made a list that went, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth and said,

That's where I'm applying

, then you probably need to think again.

There's no core cirriculum and, in many deparentments, prereqs and grades aren't a big deal. When I explain that to students at other schools, they assume Brown folks must slack off. It's just the opposite. It means that you have to create your own plan. And the sort of people who do well at Brown tend to create plans far more intense than someone who was given a pre-written one would.

Basically, Brown is the perfect school. But it is only perfect for people of a certain disposition. It you want to be mollycoddled while waiting to be granted a diploma with a fancy name, apply somewhere else.