<p>thanks for all the suggestions! any in New Mexico???</p>
<p>Some college called St. John's apparently has no core.</p>
<p>On the other hand, it has no majors.</p>
<p>It's in Santa Fe.</p>
<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=145086%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=145086</a>
Topic already discussed here</p>
<p>"Some college called St John's" ???? LOL
You mean one of the great colleges in the country? A college that defines "Liberal Arts" A college that, the Fiske Guide writes... "my be the most intellectual college in the country" ? </p>
<p>Oh, yeah... that college...</p>
<p>I would say that St. John's is all core. Everybody takes the same things all four years ... There is also a St. John's in Annapolis, Maryland.</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins looks like it has distribution requirements, at least as I define them. <a href="http://www.jhu.edu/%7Eadvising/academic_manual/BA_BS.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.jhu.edu/~advising/academic_manual/BA_BS.html</a></p>
<p>Excuse me... "...might be"</p>
<p>"Oh, yeah... that college..."</p>
<p>They just seemed really rather weird to me, but hey, I'm a science and technology person.</p>
<p>"I would say that St. John's is all core. Everybody takes the same things all four years."</p>
<p>Alternately, this could be viewed from the standpoint that everyone immediatly begins the only academic program with no prerequisites whatsoever.</p>
<p>Just felt the initial comments were rather dismissive of a school that seems extremely well-regarded. Sorry if the reaction appeared a bit over the top...</p>
<p>Do a search: </p>
<p>emmeline-
Your link doesnt seem to work...</p>
<p>to the OP--</p>
<p>At Brown, for one, you can take any class for a Pass/Fail option (called credit/no credit). That way if you happen to get curious about a sciencey subject you can delve into it with no GPA risk and much less grade pressure.</p>
<p>After HS, I was pretty sick of feeling stupid in math. I know I am smart, I did great in SAT math, but once I could not fathom what I was doing and I was just memorizing formulae and plugging in numbers with a panicky feeling in my chest, I was over it. I STILL have anxiety dreams about remembering there's some horrific math class that I signed up for months ago, but have not attended all semester, and today is the final exam.....! <em>primal scream insterted here</em></p>
<p>However, at Brown I found my 1st semester humanities load so ridiculously heavy in reading and papers that I was forced just for survival to contemplate other sorts of classes... Wound up taking econ C/NC and loving it, changed C/NC to a grade since I knew I could hack it, went on to take several upper level econ courses. (BTW Econ math is so much more concrete and did not elicit that panicky feeling!) Though I was science avoidant as well, curiousity finally took over. I recently read "The Elegant Universe" and adored this brain-exercize.</p>
<p>I completely agree that after AP levels courses in certain topics some people have HAD the exposure that is essential and they really don't care for much more. </p>
<p>An open curriculum has a great deal of value and is an "apples and oranges" alternative to core (which also has great value). Pick the option that most excites you intellectually.</p>
<p>Rice has distribution requirements but no core per se. It's possible to get away without hard science courses there if you major in history or a foreign language.</p>
<p>I would rather take a hard cover copy of Atlas Shrugged to the face than take another class I absolutely don't care about again.</p>
<p>eulenspiegel is right, a lot of schools have very flexible distributive requirements.</p>
<p>Smoke&Mirrors, a good LOL.</p>
<p>I felt exactly the same way as you do now.</p>
<p>i like core classes... lol, i think its cool to be all knowledgly in like english/foreign language, math, science, social studies... then your major (and if its one of the above, then even further...)</p>
<p>Core - Columbia, Chicago, Claremont McKenna, Grove City, etc.</p>
<p>Distribution Requirements (No Core) - Most other universities and colleges.</p>
<p>Take Whatever You Want (No Dist. Req's)- Brown and ??</p>
<p>Sarah Lawrence, or is that just the college with no majors...</p>
<p>i really really need to bump this because i want to double major and minor. I'm into
english, anthropology,french, comparative literature, and international studies, possibly area studies, and study mandarin, arabic, spanish, and hindi, so i don't want to be busy taking lots of gen-eds
the ones i know that fit this criteria are vassar, amherst, brown, hamilton, smith, and the other ones on these threads.
so any ideas would be appreciated:)</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Pitzer (Claremont, CA) doesn't really have GEs. I don't know exactly how it works...there are a few loose areas to be filled, but I know people who have unintentionally finished them their freshman year.</p></li>
<li><p>UCSD has a number of different colleges that each have different core requirements, so you can choose one based on your own interests.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>A few random thoughts from my own experience:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>I almost didn't attend my college because it had a 3 semester language requirement and I HAAAAAATED foreign languages (more than one) in high school. The program was awesome, though, and I ended up doing 4 semesters and having a blast in all of them. Lucky accident.</p></li>
<li><p>A lot of the other GEs have bogged me down, since between major/minor/GEs I have 32 requirements and 32 classes need to graduate. For grad school, I'm really turned off to schools that have a lot of requirements b/c that has been a downside of my undergrad experience.</p></li>
<li><p>GEs have also been helpful, because as much as I love my degrees, I get reeeaaally unhappy if that's <em>ALL</em> I'm studying. It's nice to have a different type of class in there, mixing things up.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>My recommendation would be to look for schools that have loose requirements, not too many, focus on breadth instead of particularity, etc., but don't be totally turned off by GEs b/c they MAY have some unexpected benefits. Good luck!</p>