<p>Looking around College Confidential and Carleton's website, all of the information I can find is that students take 3 courses at a time at Carleton. One other school I am looking at that uses a trimester (quarter) system is UChicago, but I know that some students there take 4 courses at a time. Taking 4 courses at a time would appeal to me very much as it would allow me to become sufficiently advanced in Physics and maybe add a Mathematics major. Throughout my search, however, I haven't been able to find any information leading to some evidence that you can take 4 courses at a time at Carleton.</p>
<p>Not a problem with 3 courses a term. Check out the Physics website. Many students double major in Physics and Math, conduct research every term while on campus, take advanced classes and head off to Harvard, Stanford, etc.</p>
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<p>If this is true, it is new. When I was at Carleton double majoring was discouraged and rare. This was because of the comprehensive project requirement spanning several trimesters for each individual major. Maybe 1 student got a double physics & math major every 2 or 3 years. My experiences are over a decade old, so it would be nice to hear current student’s perspectives…?</p>
<p>Overloading at Carleton (taking 4 courses) was rarely done when I was there, and it was strongly discouraged. It should be discouraged in my opinion. I think it runs counter to the goals of a college education at Carleton or anywhere for that matter. You should be spending your time doing research or participating in some activity. If I am a prof looking to hire potential PhD students, I want research experience or other activities. Pulling mediocre grades while overloading is not going make much sense.</p>
<p>I was told that taking 4 6-credit courses is rare. You need to get special permission to do that. </p>
<p>To meet the course requirements of double majors is not hard, but to do 2 research projects can be very challenging. </p>
<p>Math may be one of the (relatively) easier double majors because the department affords the option of a smaller integrative exercise. </p>
<p>My son is a current student and has overloaded one class for each of the past 6 trimesters. He has had to petition each trimester to do this, but has not had a problem (except figuring out which courses will fill up first, since the overloaded class cannot be added until everyone has registered, and usually the first day of the term).</p>