<p>Hi everyone! I’ve just committed but have several things still curious. Can current students please give me some help? Thank you in advance!</p>
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<li><p>Do students generally register successfully for all the courses they want?</p></li>
<li><p>Where can I learn about the difficulty of math/language placement tests?</p></li>
<li><p>I know Brown doesn’t have Core/distribution requirement, which is awesome, but if I plan to get a professional degree after college, am I advised to take a broad range of courses? rather than doubling?</p></li>
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<li><p>What’s “Mid-semester Deadline”?</p></li>
<li><p>What’s “Mid-year Completion Celebration” ?</p></li>
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<p>1) This depends on your semester, persistence, and which courses you want to take. It’s very hard to get into certain small classes as freshmen and even sophomores, though in some courses attending class even when you couldn’t register for the course will convince the professor to let you in. I haven’t had a capped (enrollment-limited) class since freshman year, though, so you may not, depending on your department(s) and interests. Additionally, you may find that you don’t have the prereqs for a course and the professor may be unwilling to let you in, or times of courses may conflict. This would mean you can’t take your first choice schedule, but I don’t think this is what you’re referring to.</p>
<p>2) I never took the math placement exam (it only goes through BC Calc, so I placed out by my AP score), but I can say the French placement exam was laughably easy. I placed into 2nd year without having ever studied French (I took the exam for laughs). With that said, I don’t think you should worry about the difficulty of the placement exams - if you place into a higher level course and do poorly, what was the point?</p>
<p>3) I’d imagine it depends on the professional degree, but I don’t know much here.</p>
<p>4) This is really just the last day when you can change your grade option from credit to audit and a deadline to request a professor write a more detailed feedback report. Not really anything else.</p>
<p>5) Can’t say I know anything about it…</p>
<p>Thank you very much! thats was helpful!</p>
<p>@Uroogla: thanks a lot!
@sabrinayjw: are you also a freshman-to-be at brown? if yes, that’ll be awesome!</p>
<p>1’. Once upon a time (as in, four years ago) there were almost no prereqs or up-front limits on enrollment in courses at Brown. My understanding is that they’re still pretty few and far between – I like to think that I had something to do with their limited scope, but I probably didn’t.</p>
<p>3’. In the case of law schools, the answer is: take whatever you want in college.</p>
<p>5’. That’s probably not relevant to you – it’s for people who finish their degree in the middle of a year (at the end of the fall semester).</p>
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<li>depends on what you want to double in also. I was ScB Bio and Classics, meaning I had 4 non concentration requirement courses (and ended up only using 2 of those to branch out!) With a 2nd degree like Classics, you could argue that I took classes from the following departments: sociology, art, theater, literary arts, religious studies, history, anthropology, foreign language because that’s how diverse my course load was. I just wanted all of those classes to be about the same time period.</li>
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