Does anyone know the maximum number of semesters allowed at Brown?
Maximum? Could you explain why you’re asking?
what if you want to stay for an extra two semesters?
Why?
if you change majors?
You can certainly graduate in more than 8 semesters, but you need to pay the extra tuition.
do you happen to have a link to the relevant page of the brown website?
The combined ScB/AB requires 10 semesters and there’s a fifth-year master’s program so there’s certainly precedence for 5 years of study at Brown. That being said, I think the odds that a student changes concentrations late enough that it delays their graduation but still early enough that it’s really worth changing course are incredibly slim. With no distribution requirements, it is incredibly easy to build whatever schedule you need at Brown. For example I essentially did an ScB/AB in 4 years because when you have 32 courses, doing 20 for an ScB in biology and 8 for an AB in classics is easy to do. It’s hard to pick a combination of two concentrations with more requirements and less overlap than that.
if you have a link to the brown website with the relevant wording (not related to a combined degree) i would be grateful.
Probably doesn’t exist. I’m still not sure what you’re really looking for - are you planning on going to Brown and changing your mind on your concentration?
Why don’t you contact the Registrar at Brown and ask?
I bet something exists in the CAS Handbook regarding the policies of failing to complete a degree in 8 semesters but it looks like alumni don’t have access to it. I 2nd contacting the registrar when classes resume after MLK weekend but the point of my earlier post is that you are planning for an incredibly unlikely scenario. It’d almost like asking to see the transfer policy at a school for kids whose school gets shut down by a national disaster (thinking about how Brown took a bunch of Tulane kids in 05 because of Katrina and the entire thing was done on the fly - http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2005-06/05-016.html).
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I’m unclear on the purpose of this thread. The OP appears to be a parent. Is there a kid involved who is a current Brown student? If not, isn’t this the type of question that should be deferred until such time as one is actually a student?
I think this is the best you can do:
https://www.brown.edu/academics/college/degree/sites/brown.edu.academics.college.degree/files/uploads/Petition%20for%20an%20Optional%20Ninth%20Semester.pdf