Brown University (2025-2026)

[woven pewter]

Are you at brown

[acoustic kernel]

Yeah

[balmy peak]

Nope, but my top school I'm planning on applying next year

[acoustic kernel]

Student culture definitely plays a role in the undergrad experience, for me it was a huge factor

[woven pewter]

Good luck man

[woven pewter]

People who don't consider it, I imagine, regret their chice eventually

[balmy peak]

It's either this school or darmouth tbh for completely different reasons

[woven pewter]

Ohh nice

You'll get it

[dusk night]

Are you pre-law

[acoustic kernel]

I’m not

[pallid marsh]

Hey guys were yall able to set up your brown emails, and did you receive anything yet

I just wanna make sure I am not behind on any forms or anything

[woven pewter]

How long ago did you commit?

[pallid marsh]

on the 23rd

[halcyon prairie]

Has anyone gotten off the waitlist 🥺🥺🥺🥺

[woven pewter]

You'll get a financial agreement to sign

But besides that, unless you're International, I don't know what else you should expect

[woven pewter]

Haven't seen anyone who has

[pallid marsh]

they told me to activate my email and i think i did but i dont know how to verify

and also do you know when stuff like housing form / general announcements begin being sent

[woven pewter]

If you can login then it is

[woven pewter]

I think June to July

Some things may roll out late this month maybe

[pallid marsh]

alright thank you

[rare musk]

laugh track

[acoustic kernel]

I don’t get it

[rare musk]

thats what they all say

nobody actually finishes with the double anymore

[acoustic kernel]

Oh, why though?

Especially if Brown students usually have many different interests

[hot canyon]

i emailed them cuz i didnt get my student email which i needed asap (im an intl student so i have to apply for a student visa etc)

and the next day i was given login information

now it's fully activated

u can get free access to the atlantic etc 😎

[daring prairie]

Holy shizzle

My school’s counselor just told me he needs to meet with me

Based on a call he received from a Brown AO

Sonion

[sharp maple]

projecting

im just built different

[rare musk]

double is highkey chunky since it kills a lot of your flexibility, it basically forces all your electives into one major which hurts peoples breadth

you have to commit really early IMO

also like its just hard man

[sharp maple]

no bro let them double

but yes doubling is overrated tbh unless you plan to ROI both degrees

my friend came in planning to do a ScB CS and Music double (25 credits) and he decided he didnt feel like it one credit away from finishing his music degree

[rare musk]

^

doubling is mostly overrated

i know a lot of people who were cs visa and dropped the visa

that being said, visa is a huge time commitment

but yeah like most people i meet go like “yeah im dropping that part”

[daring prairie]

Brown AO apparently asked him if I was still interested and mentioned that I never submitted a LOCI 😓

He told my counselor that if I submitted one by tonight he’d be able to use it to advocate for me in committee

So very interesting

[balmy peak]

That's a good sihn

[sharp maple]

Yo lock the f in and send your LOCI

What are doing chat

[woven pewter]

Would you change your mind on columbia

[daring prairie]

Lowk prolly not

The reason I didn’t send a LOCI was that like

If I got into Brown off waitlist

I wouldn’t have the time I need to make a good decision

Because I wouldn’t even get to tour

I’d have like…

3 days

[dusk night]

Then probably don’t do a LOCI

Because if you do ur essentially taking a spot from someone else

[daring prairie]

https://klipy.com/gifs/gifgod-lilyachty--k01KQX5DWKCY8AG6436B87M8QGP

[dusk night]

😡

[daring prairie]

Sent it

Now we wait

I’ll def be researching Brown doe

[sick shore]

ur gonna be leaving the lions..

[balmy peak]

Lowk depending on your goals brown>columbia

[acoustic kernel]

That’s a good point

I think I’ll leave it for now and see what happens based on my classes during freshman year. They might (or might not) gravitate towards two main concentrations so that graduating with a double would happen ‘by itself’

I’m probably not making sense haha

[sharp maple]

We all know what you mean

The reason Brown is better than the other schools is that you are given agency to direct your own learning

Key word is learning

Not degree acquisition
For the aim of learning your classes should gravitate to what you feel like learning

[daring prairie]

idk....

Did u ever visit brown?

brown v columbia is the most geeked choice out of any of the two ivies for me bruh 😭

any othr set of 2 and I prolly wouldn't have an issue

[sharp maple]

How is this a choice

Brown and Columbia are opposite academic formulations

Do you want the core curriculum experience or the open curriculum experience

You do not need to tour 😭

[rare musk]

nah

i think theres a very sizable subsection of people who will use the open curriculum like a core curriculum in terms of breadth

lowk that was me

at least going in

that being said theres way more important differences than curriculum to look at

(social culture, urban environment)

[sharp maple]

That too

Personally I used the open curriculum as a way to avoid taking classes I don’t like in subjects I don’t care about

[daring prairie]

I'm lowkey gonna squeeze you son

for me the open curriculum is an opportunity to take lots of classes in terms of breadth, so it's a lot more similar to the core

[daring prairie]

that's not really the experience i'm looking for w/ the core, personally

[sharp maple]

Never heard that one before

Yeah I liked being able to take sociology, philosophy, psychology, political science but I wanted to be able to choose how I execute my breadth

Also I really needed the academic flexibility Brown includes

Columbia there’s less siloing because of core classes

Versus at Brown if you’re in the CS world you deadass might go 4 years without speaking to someone in Education

[daring prairie]

that's one thing about columbia I like

[dusk night]

are you a STEM major

[sick shore]

iirc econ

[daring prairie]

Linguistics and Econ-Math

[dusk night]

mm that’s hard then

Are you pre-law or something else

[daring prairie]

considering pre-law

[dusk night]

I feel like depending on ur professional goals one school might be better than the other

[daring prairie]

not really dead set on one thing

considering law, finance(blergh) and grad school

[dusk night]

finance 💀 💀

[sharp maple]

brown for pre law

columbia for finance

[dusk night]

Well I think both are good for both paths

If you like the core then Columbia will be great for pre law

So I feel like it’s more based on fit for this path

Tho if it was for like engineering or something then Columbia is noticeably better

[daring prairie]

They’re pretty clearly equal for anything but like IB recruiting ss far as I can see

In terms of wjat I might do

[acoustic kernel]

right

brown's such a cool school

i also love the fact that all the knowledge i'll be accumulating in different areas of study will end up showing in my senior thesis in philosophy

[strange current]

brown vs columbia is a lot about major i think

like i would love to study at brown bc of freedom of curriculum but for engineering columbia is kind of a no brainer

[dusk night]

Columbia philosophy is also amazing

Prob top 3 in the country

And the core being very overlapped is really nice

[strange current]

yea

my friend applied econ + philosophy instead of pure econ and was sad he got rejected lol

[balmy peak]

Holy fuck

W brown

Brown is goated

ED brown

[strange current]

W

See if u can get into contact with one of the ppl that lead the lab

[balmy peak]

I'm a HS student dawg

And intl. I don't think there would be any use for me

I was js wondering

[strange current]

ah no worries

[sharp maple]

Jesus christ

Locked in