<p>Can someone explain to me what the Open Curriculum is? I don’t seem to understnad the idea of no A/B/C grades.</p>
<p>Try posting this in the Brown forum.</p>
<p>The open curriculum means that there are required courses for a major, but outside of the major, there are no required courses. There are A, B, C grades at Brown. However, a student may elect to take any class as Satisfactory/no credit. This means that if he/she fails the class, no credit is given, if he/she passes the class it is listed as satisfactory.</p>
<p>But most kids will choose to take classes for grades - for grad school admissions and employers. Pass/fail option is nice for exploratory classes. Everyone makes a big deal of this option as if all students just go to these schools to play and just get by taking pass/fail. In reality, the type of student who might want to do this probably wouldn't have been accepted in the first place. That's not the type of student these schools are looking for.</p>
<p>This has the best explanation you will find:</p>