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Brown University
Providence, RI
An Ivy League university on historic College Hill in Providence, renowned for empowering students as architects of their own education through its flexible Open Curriculum.
- Admit rate
- 5.1%
- Highly selective
- SAT middle 50%
- 1500–1570
- Scores required to apply
- Avg. net price
- $26,700
- per year, after grants
- Average GPA
- 3.94
- unweighted
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Half of admitted students scored between 1500 and 1570.
Popular majors
- Computer ScienceComputer Science & AIWell regarded
- Applied MathematicsMath & Natural SciencesStandout program
- International and Public AffairsSocial Sciences & LawWell regarded
- Biology & Pre-MedBiology, Health & Pre-MedWell regarded
- Literary Arts & WritingHumanities & WritingStandout program
Highlights
- Legendary Open Curriculum with no core requirements
- Collaborative, low-stress intellectual culture without GPA curve
- Program in Liberal Medical Education (PLME) direct med school link
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