As for second-year students at Brown, they seem to share the same difficulties with Yale students. They too postpone selecting a concentration until junior year. This creates a year of advising slump, where students are not yet affiliated with a department and have lost peer advisers. And once students obtain their concentration adviser, Brown students encounter spotty and variable advising, largely dependent on what concentration they chose to pursue. Smaller departments have a better time advising, as one would expect.
Larger departments have a harder time.
I feel like some people have amazing relationships and others don't even have one. And Brown's system has not gone unnoticed. In the coming years, Brown is planning on changing its wording when describing advising at the college. Students generally agree with this philosophy. Brown is whatever you make it.