<p>I want to go to a decent 4 year college that has absolutely no core requirements. I want the freedom to take only courses I want to take.</p>
<p>I heard Brown is a bit like that. Brown would be a long shot though. What are some other decent colleges with no core requirements?</p>
<p>If you have enough AP credits, they can get you out of most core requirements at many schools anyway.</p>
<p>noimagination I am afraid that won’t be possible in my case.</p>
<p>At my school, Wake Forest, you can do open curriculum and not have any requirements. But, yes Brown is like that.</p>
<p>if you are a girl, Smith is like that
if not, maybe Hampshire(although they are adding some requirments) or Hamilton</p>
<p>Amherst has no core.</p>
<p>There aren’t many schools with no core. Actually I think every school should have a core so that students graduate with a breadth of knowledge.</p>
<p>Amherst, Wesleyan, Vassar, Grinnell.</p>
<p>University of Rochester requires that you take a number of classes in certain disciplines but does not have your classic core requirements.</p>
<p>Grinnell has no distribution requirements.</p>
<p>I hated core classes in high school. I failed them and had to repeat them. I really hated science. I never did a science project that was mandatoryI accepted the F. So, yeah, I don’t plan to pay a fat load of money for a class I’m only going to fail out of lack of caring. It’d be nice if I could pay to learn classes I actually want to take.</p>
<p>Please tell me there’s a school of the arts somewhere out there that won’t make me take core classes.</p>
<p>I completely agree with you, Anatine. I absolutely hate math in HS. I know for a fact I will never use 99% of it (beyond basic algebra). Everyone I’ve talked to about this say “it’s the thinking process you learn that’s important”. However, I’m a much more logical thinker from activities like debate. In fact, of my whole high school experience, debate CLUB was the most valuable aspect. Because of my coach, I’ve learned how to think in ways that school has never taught me (not to mention the factual knowledge and communication skills). I’m hoping college will be like that. </p>
<p>So anyway, to answer your question, consider universities in Europe! That’s what I’m doing, mostly because they’re good and don’t require core subjects. You can specialize immediately! Also, if you go to school in Britain undergrad is only 3 years, and again, no ridiculous course requirements- only classes for your major! </p>
<p>I could literally rant about this all day, but I shall spare you 
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<p>Oh, I also can’t wait to have teachers who actually know something about their respective subjects! </p>
<p>Okay, I’m done :)</p>
<p>Most schools have distribution requirements, not core requirements, and you can often get pretty creative with what qualifies for the distribution area. Find a school you would otherwise be interested in (location, size, football team, whatever). Look in their catalog at their distribution requirements and courses and see what you would truly have to do to meet their distribution requirements.</p>
<p>Fixed Curriculum (such as “Great Books” programs)
St. John’s College (Annapolis, Santa Fe)
Thomas Aquinas College</p>
<p>Core Curriculum
Columbia University
University of Chicago</p>
<p>Distribution Requirements<a href=“most%20US%20colleges%20and%20universities”>/u</a></p>
<p>Open Curriculum
Amherst College
Brown University
Grinnell College
Hamilton College
Hampshire College
Sarah Lawrence College
Smith College
Wesleyan University</p>
<p>Anatine, check out School of Art & Design at Alfred University (NY) </p>
<p>See if anything interests you. Feel free to send me a private message about AU.</p>
<p>[School</a> of Art and Design at Alfred University](<a href=“http://art.alfred.edu/divisions_concentrations/foundation/index.html]School”>http://art.alfred.edu/divisions_concentrations/foundation/index.html)</p>
<p>OP, have you looked at Bennington College (VT) ?</p>
<p>This looks a lot like what I’ve been looking for. Brown is one, of course. Then Smith (for girls), University of Rochester, Amherst, Wesleyan, Grinnell. I heard JHU is also one, although I was kind of surprised, because I’d NEVER heard that prior to a month or two ago even though I live in MD and a lot of people at my school apply there… I also felt like their website didn’t really talk much about it when I went to double-check. So you might take that one with a grain of salt, and do some poking into it yourself.</p>
<p>I would also choose universities you’d be otherwise interested in and, if you have the time and patience, go through and look at all of their requirements. Make SURE that you just can’t stand to take any of the classes for them. (My story about this: visited UChicago over the summer, LOVED the place. Everything about it. Except, of course, the most important thing- the core curriculum… it dropped on and off my college list for months. My mom finally convinced me to apply after I went through and actually looked up the classes that I would be taking to fill it. There was actually something for each and every requirement. Even physics. I HATE physics!)</p>
<p>Of course, that second approach is only really going to work if what you’re looking for is the freedom to take whatever you want in any discipline, instead of the way universities in England do it, where you specialize right off the bat and don’t poke around in other subjects. If all you want to do is focus on one topic… that’s probably not going to do a lot for you.</p>
<p>Brown and JHU (except as the above post said, I would take JHU with a grain of salt…I heard that too, but I can’t confirm…but I am pretty sure it’s true).</p>