<p>Please help me find a college that has no core curriculum or a program of that sort that is not impossible to get into. And:
-Has 2000 students or more (I don't care how big it is, I just want it bigger than my high school)
- Is in, or near a big city on the East Coast (mid-atl/northeast) or not as far West as Chicago
Thanks!</p>
<p>Brown University matches all of those.</p>
<p>bump...are there any other schools besides Brown that don't require a core curriculum?</p>
<p>blythe, core curriculum and distribution requirements are two separate systems. In a core curriculum system everybody takes the same basic course. Actually very few colleges have this system: Chicago and Columbia are examples.</p>
<p>Distribution requirements are general course groupings from which students choose -- for example humanities, science/math, social studies. One student may choose biology, one physics, one calculus but they all fulfill the science/math distribution requirement. Many, many colleges have distribution requirements.</p>
<p>If you're looking for schools that have neither core curriculum nor distribution requirements, the list is limited. Brown and Amherst are two. </p>
<p>If you're looking for schools that don't have core curriculum but do have distribution requirements there are many many choices.</p>
<p>Hampshire may be worth taking a look at
Curriculum</p>
<p>*
Hampshire College is an experimenting private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1970 as an experiment in alternative education by four other colleges in the Pioneer Valley: Amherst College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst (together with Hampshire they are known as the Five Colleges).
Hampshire College describes itself as "experimenting" rather than "experimental" in order to emphasize the continually changing nature of its curriculum. However, from its inception the curriculum has generally had certain non-traditional features:
An emphasis on project work as well as, or instead of, courses.
Detailed written evaluations (as well as portfolio evaluations) for completed courses and projects, rather than letter or number grades.
A curriculum centered on student interests, with students taking an active role in designing their own concentrations and projects.*</p>
<p>Smith College has what they call "open curriculum, though it is a women's college, so not for everybody, obviously.</p>
<p>Vassar College might work.</p>
<p>So why don't you want a college with a core curriculum? I was checking out JMU and saw some stats that current students complain about having to take the core curriculum, but after they graduate and get jobs they say it was a solid foundation that gives them an edge in their jobs and their thinking (I am paraphrasing from the quotes I saw, so please pardon the weird way that's worded!!). I am not crazy about taking certain classes (I have zero interest in science!), but there's some merit to it.</p>
<p>if you are willign to sacrifice 400 "friends" i mean peers amherst might work ..also look into grinnell</p>