Why Brown University? | Academic Q&A

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  • In this Brown University Q&A, Kat and I discuss why we chose Brown, academics, Brown/RISD dual degree, and competition/stress culture.
    Kat's Video (What We Like/Dislike About Brown): • What We Like/Dislike A...
    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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  • @MayGao
    @MayGao  5 ปีที่แล้ว +140

    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 :-)

    • @riise5967
      @riise5967 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you May!! I love you and your videos so much :D

  • @cat-kj9qw
    @cat-kj9qw 5 ปีที่แล้ว +202

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

  • @DrAdnan
    @DrAdnan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    The open curriculum structure sounds amazing

  • @isaac-yo9dh
    @isaac-yo9dh 5 ปีที่แล้ว +79

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

    • @MayGao
      @MayGao  5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      not about the clout :P thank you though

  • @aronqiu6730
    @aronqiu6730 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

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

  • @kiwistrawberry8740
    @kiwistrawberry8740 5 ปีที่แล้ว +58

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

    • @MayGao
      @MayGao  5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I’ll film this next fall! thanks for the suggestion :))

  • @kiratraylor4900
    @kiratraylor4900 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I NEEDED THIS OMGG

  • @hillarytran1590
    @hillarytran1590 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @lily14130
    @lily14130 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

  • @alicelee13
    @alicelee13 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    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

  • @user-mq5os2xk6d
    @user-mq5os2xk6d 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Awesome video, May! 😊

  • @chloes1308
    @chloes1308 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    you guys have positive vibes and I love it

  • @beambaapol
    @beambaapol 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This video made me so proud of getting accepted!

  • @laurasofia9184
    @laurasofia9184 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    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

  • @fatimazahrah3995
    @fatimazahrah3995 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was super, super helpful!!

  • @davistong
    @davistong 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    one of the few college youtubers i watch 🙏

    • @MayGao
      @MayGao  5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      woo thanks for watchin

  • @stephen7994
    @stephen7994 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @cynthiawang9973
    @cynthiawang9973 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Omg I love ur hair sm

  • @dezwest
    @dezwest 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @ExplanationNext
    @ExplanationNext 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have subscribed! Great content!

  • @chezgr8r308
    @chezgr8r308 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just committed!!

  • @paul-mo3zi
    @paul-mo3zi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

  • @cookies521400
    @cookies521400 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    first like and view

    • @MayGao
      @MayGao  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      speedy

  • @danielchoi4939
    @danielchoi4939 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you. Good job

  • @edu4945
    @edu4945 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice video!

  • @luizabalby8090
    @luizabalby8090 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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😊

  • @tommybutler8631
    @tommybutler8631 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My sister graduated from brown last summer!!!

  • @nicolec4011
    @nicolec4011 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    why doesn’t may have 17 mil subs

    • @MayGao
      @MayGao  5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      17 is my favorite number :o

  • @bayansaduakhassova4809
    @bayansaduakhassova4809 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I really need on campus classes just for group-sufferings in library at 4 am

  • @samanthaculver2405
    @samanthaculver2405 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    can you make a video on what colleges you applied to and if you got in or not? love you!!!

    • @MayGao
      @MayGao  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s in this video: th-cam.com/video/gH7wDR1gpQM/w-d-xo.html

  • @broganlong5001
    @broganlong5001 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    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.

    • @MayGao
      @MayGao  4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Ahh I hear you. The best advice I can give is to not worry about what everyone else is doing and to take more risks. You got this!!

  • @Sarah-zi8ki
    @Sarah-zi8ki 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Brown campus is so pretty! Have you been to the bagel shop there, I forgot what it’s called lol

  • @Sarah-zi8ki
    @Sarah-zi8ki 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    MY DREAM school ahha

  • @joannanana7297
    @joannanana7297 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    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.)

  • @sparklingclouds9456
    @sparklingclouds9456 ปีที่แล้ว

    💓💓💓💓💓💓

  • @tommybutler8631
    @tommybutler8631 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Two summers ago^

  • @miacooper7523
    @miacooper7523 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    what high schools did you go to?

  • @marksoldiers230
    @marksoldiers230 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    A little known factoid: The highest paying four year degree can be earned at Montana Tech, Butte Montana. It is their petroleum engineering degree. Plus Tech tuition is cheap. Only drawback to such a degree? You don't get to wear a business a suit and you do get dirty.

  • @user-gp8fr1nd3w
    @user-gp8fr1nd3w 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Funny lol I’m the opposite, brown was my dream school, but ended up at Columbia :)

  • @valentinah2825
    @valentinah2825 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hii!! I want to enter premed in Brown, can you please help me and give me some advices?

    • @MayGao
      @MayGao  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Check out my All About Being Pre-Med playlist!

  • @kohyoham9786
    @kohyoham9786 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Is Brown a quarter system?

    • @MayGao
      @MayGao  5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      brown is on a semester system!

  • @amycruzcuevas6426
    @amycruzcuevas6426 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    wait you can take RISD and Brown classes together?

    • @MayGao
      @MayGao  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      yup!

    • @amycruzcuevas6426
      @amycruzcuevas6426 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MayGao how does that work? I didn't really understand it if it was in the video.

    • @MayGao
      @MayGao  5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It should be at around the 16 minute mark, but as a Brown student you can cross-register at RISD. You need to get approval from the professor at RISD, then fill out a few forms, and you should be set! The RISD course catalog is searchable online.

    • @amycruzcuevas6426
      @amycruzcuevas6426 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MayGao oh thanks for the info this helps a lot

  • @ninanadnabilah
    @ninanadnabilah 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    omg ur hair is blue

    • @MayGao
      @MayGao  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      magic of editing! :P

  • @girl4342
    @girl4342 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Why Brown and not Yale? 🤔

  • @jd_6029
    @jd_6029 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey
    What were your sats?
    Can I get in with sat in the 1400s?

    • @MayGao
      @MayGao  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I talk about my scores in th-cam.com/video/gH7wDR1gpQM/w-d-xo.html

  • @milespq5561
    @milespq5561 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    5:52 cough **Cornell** cough cough. 👀

  • @konodio9125
    @konodio9125 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    2nd

  • @karenluu7706
    @karenluu7706 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    iS brOWn uNiVersiTY a HaRd scHoOl

    • @MayGao
      @MayGao  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      this is the extent of my clickbait capacity