<p>I didn't get to sign up for a FOCUS study, I checked and the only ones they had left were some that I really was not interested in. Does anyone know what percentage of students do FOCUS? And am I at a huge disadvantage for not doing it?
Thanks!</p>
<p>If it makes a difference, the two people who I know at WashU who are older than us didn’t do any freshman programs and they are both perfectly happy. One of them is in the combined med program. I don’t think you’re at a disadvantage at all, except that you aren’t taking a class that is automatically under 20 students.</p>
<p>~10 focus programs x ~ 15-20 students average per class = 150-200 out of an ArtSci school of about, I think it’s somewhere around 700-800. So around 1/5-1/4 of ArtSci students do focus, from my estimate.</p>
<p>That said, do Focus if it interests you, else, there’s really no point committing to something you aren’t interested in.</p>
<p>No clue why people think Focus is a big deal.</p>
<p>If you are interested, go ahead. If you are not, don’t. FOCUS classes are merely guaranteed to be smaller (15-20 people). Other than that, there is nothing special about them.</p>