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<p>I think it’s unfair to ding them on computer literacy for the timeframe of 1983-1987; as someone who attended college in that same timeframe, no one would have known that we’d all have our own PC’s one day, and at the time, only would-be programmers needed to study computers.</p>
<p>While my school (top 20, but not Ivy) had distribution requirements (2 quarter-courses across 6 different areas), as a non-science major, I took 2 science classes geared towards non-scientists (one on genetics and one on human reproduction and development) and I don’t see what the big deal is that I never had a lab. It would have been wasted on me and for my interests, which were math, econ, and political science. And while I personally liked having distribution requirements that helped me “dabble” in courses I wouldn’t have otherwise (loved Asian art history, enjoyed North American geography), I’m not really sure that I can claim that it’s awful that a French major at Princeton didn’t have advanced math. </p>
<p>Also, Jerseymom, you may want to make clear that everything after the link is from the article, not your commentary (I at first read it as your commentary).</p>