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Date: February 10th, 2009 12:47 PM Author: rambunctious rehab liquid oxygen This is kind of a repost.
I'm wondering about Brown's Public Policy program at the Taubman center. I figured it would be good because of the name, but I have not seen it on any top MPP lists. Anyone have any knowledge on this ?
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Date: February 10th, 2009 12:56 PM Author: Orange shitlib Brown has layman's prestige, but the program itself is new and quite weak compared to the ones you'll find on ranking lists. not worth the $$$, imo. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=931035&forum_id=3#10893843) |
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Date: February 12th, 2009 12:19 PM Author: salmon high-end gas station affirmative action brown's mpp is too new to show up on national ranking lists yet and mpp rank lists are incredibly random/subjective anyway (no one actually believes syracuse is better than harvard)
that being said, the taubman faculty includes a lot of high profile national academic experts as well as practitioners (former senators, etc.)
they also have the ability to draw big names to campus to give talks (barack obama and both clintons for instance within the last two years)
the mpp is mostly about connections anyway and brown definitely has them |
Date: February 10th, 2009 1:55 PM Author: bistre philosopher-king It sucks, just like almost any of Brown's grad programs. Exactly why do you assume that undergrad prestige = grad prestige? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=931035&forum_id=3#10894126) |
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Date: February 10th, 2009 2:26 PM Author: Orange shitlib Brown is a shit hole. the worst thing about its graduate programs is that they are ridiculously selective relative to their quality. it's amazing that people will even pay the application fee. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=931035&forum_id=3#10894296) |
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Date: February 10th, 2009 3:12 PM Author: bistre philosopher-king Brown's grad programs are mostly for losers who want to brag about going to an Ivy, when anyone who is remotely knowledgeable would be able to tell that their program is shit. However, it's doubtful that these hacks could have done markedly better. They just prefer a shit program at Brown to a higher-ranked program at some state school. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=931035&forum_id=3#10894586) |
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Date: February 10th, 2009 3:38 PM Author: Orange shitlib I just wonder how Brown masks the fact that it's a rancid, festering TTT wasteland at the graduate level to admitted students (at least at the PhD level). Does it rigorously employ Tufts syndrome, or are the people who go there really vain enough to pick a 40th-ranked program at Brown over a 10th-ranked program at, say, the University of Washington? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=931035&forum_id=3#10894735) |
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Date: February 10th, 2009 4:17 PM Author: cerebral mad cow disease menage Brown is a cesspool at the ugrad level too. No one takes that diploma seriously. Brown is for lazy hippies with trust funds and family connections. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=931035&forum_id=3#10894961) |
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Date: February 10th, 2009 4:24 PM Author: Orange shitlib i'm fairly sure that Brown undergrad isn't a liability and that its graduates don't have problems finding jobs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=931035&forum_id=3#10894999) |
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Date: February 11th, 2009 12:25 PM Author: Odious Hell Double Fault Lulz, u are pretty TTT yrself (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=931035&forum_id=3#10901119) |
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Date: February 11th, 2009 12:47 PM Author: Orange shitlib care to elaborate? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=931035&forum_id=3#10901272) |
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Date: February 11th, 2009 1:03 PM Author: Odious Hell Double Fault Shitty regional studies masters, ttt phd student, want me to go on? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=931035&forum_id=3#10901430) |
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Date: February 11th, 2009 1:06 PM Author: Orange shitlib i also own my own home, have 6 figures in the bank, have no debt, don't pay tuition, and make over 60k per year while in grad school. might not be impressive by xoxo standards, but i'll gladly take it for now (as someone well under 30 and still not 100% sure what he wants to do with his life). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=931035&forum_id=3#10901453) |
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Date: March 10th, 2009 10:56 PM Author: beta brethren doctorate we all can't be BIGFAMOUSCHILDREN (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=931035&forum_id=3#11108338) |
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Date: February 11th, 2009 12:03 PM Author: Dull quadroon Brown does have a handful of good graduate programs-Classics and Applied Math are among the tops in their categories. The regular programs: English, History, etc are decently placed. Terms like shit and TTT are too casually tossed about on this board.
But Brown is still an overwhelmingly undergraduate school. |
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Date: February 11th, 2009 1:41 PM Author: Orange shitlib yes, it is fun to throw those terms around on xoxo, and yes, they are used loosely here. xoxo TTT =/= true TTT. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=931035&forum_id=3#10901774) |
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Date: March 10th, 2009 9:39 PM Author: beta brethren doctorate geology! geology! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=931035&forum_id=3#11107473) |