Why Brown University? | Academic Q&A

In this Brown University Q&A, Kat and I discuss why we chose Brown, academics, Brown/RISD dual degree, and competition/stress culture.

Time Stamps:
0:00 Intro
0:20 Our concentrations at Brown
0:43 Why Brown?
2:46 When did you know Brown was the school for you?
3:50 Stress culture at Brown?
6:24 Biggest differences between Brown and high school?
7:27 Clubs/organizations we’re involved in
9:48 School traditions?
10:24 Balancing academics, extracurriculars, and social life
12:13 Juggling CS with other subjects?
13:43 Unique traits that brown looks for in students?
15:30 Brown/RISD Dual Degree, cross-registration at RISD
19:23 Are academics at Brown difficult?
20:49 Favorite classes/professors?

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I'm May! I'm a sophomore c/o 2021 at Brown studying Public Health on a pre-medicine track. I'm from California (SF Bay Area woohoo!) but go to college in Rhode Island. I love talking about my application experiences, study tips, habit formation, and mental health.

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Time stamps:
0:20 - Our concentrations at Brown
0:43 - Why Brown?
2:46 - When did you know Brown was the school for you?
3:50 - Stress culture at Brown?
6:24 - Biggest differences between Brown and high school?
7:27 - Clubs/organizations we’re involved in
9:48 - School traditions?
10:24 - Balancing academics, extracurriculars, and social life
12:13 - Juggling CS with other subjects?
13:43 - Unique traits that brown looks for in students?
15:30 - Brown/RISD Dual Degree, cross-registration at RISD
19:23 - Are academics at Brown difficult?
20:49 - Favorite classes/professors?

Since this is a long video and even I can barely listen to myself for 20 minutes... Hope these time stamps are helpful :-)

[cat-kjqw]

"i've made a lot of friends through mutual suffering" BRUH if that aint college in one sentence

[DrAdnan]

The open curriculum structure sounds amazing

[isaac-yodh]

You need more clout👏🏻 no tea no shade but I hate how other college Youtubers go through a super fake “mOrNiNg rOuTiNe” and everything. You keep it real

[kiwistrawberry]

Can you do a typical weekend at brown?? Where you go to shop for your snacks, your prep for the next weekend, etc.!

[aronqiu]

Wow! You really makes me fall in love with Brown! ! ! ! !

[alicelee]

im currently in the college app process and i just binged all of your videos on life as a Brown student. I've fallen in love with the school and I really hope I'll be able to go in fall of 2021 <3

[beambaapol]

This video made me so proud of getting accepted!

[davistong]

one of the few college youtubers i watch 🙏

[paul-mozi]

im in 9th grade brown is my dream school i was also struggling between art school and normal school brown is very perfect

[dezwest]

I’ve been getting a lot of brown uni portfolio videos in my recommended.

[laurasofia]

Hey May! I’ve literally binged watched all your college vids omg, you should make a video about dorm life and what it’s like to live in RI

[lily]

Such a great video! Literally all the classes Kat mentioned are ones I'll def take. :)

[hillarytran]

your hair looks so good may!! + thanks for the great info!

[chloes]

you guys have positive vibes and I love it

[luizabalby]

Hi May! I love your videos so much and Brown is my dream college sz I wanted to ask you if you have any friends majoring in philosophy for them to talk about their courses and professors. Thanks for your videos, they are amazing😊

[joanna-cp]

Hi! I'm a senior attending an international school in Korea. I'm thinking of Cornell or Brown for my Early Decision. Personally, I think Brown is really a good fit for me; but realistically, it seems like Cornell is somewhat possible but Brown... not really possible even with ED since our school is very small and until now, only one student got into ivy league school (student who graduated last year was accepted to Cornell). When I search people's opinions about Cornell and Brown, I see a lot of Cornell students getting stressed while for Brown, people mostly explain it as collaborative and chill. I know that both of the schools are academically though, but the atmosphere seemed a lot different. So my question is, does Brown really have a different atmosphere compared to other ivy schools? Also, are classes in big size like 100~200 students? (I saw Cornell student talking about an introductory course that had 300 people and how that was hard to adjust... I think I'll have hard time on those kind of classes too since our school is really small - like 50 students in our grade.)

[tommybutler]

My sister graduated from brown last summer!!!

[stephen]

Omg I love you so Your so interesting and fun!!!!

[broganlong]

Stress culture is so bad at my school. I go to a public boarding school (I know weird right) and students are so competitive they got rid of class rank. It’s so crazy dude, we actually secretly all hate each other.