Schools with open curriculum?

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<p>I'm not a math person at ALL and I'm really not looking forward to taking math courses in college, so I was wondering - what are some open curriculum schools out there? The only one I know of so far is Vassar. </p>

<p>Also, just in case I do end up going to a school with a core curriculum, how do the math classes work? Do you have to take a placement test to see where you belong? If so, do you only have to take say... two years of math to fulfill the req? Or is it more of a... must get to at least Calculus to fulfill the req?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>Other schools with open curriculums are Johns Hopkins, Amherst, and Brown.</p>

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<p>Univ of Rochester has one English requirement. Brown has NO core requirements at all.</p>

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<p>Sarah Lawrence College</p>

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<p>Grinnell - the only requirement outside your major is a freshman seminar.</p>

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<p>Amherst and Hampshire</p>

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<p>are there more?</p>

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<p>Brown. And Wesleyan if you don't care about graduating with honors.</p>

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<p>Columbia. I know people are saying that the CORE is pretty extensive here, but in terms of math--you don't have to take any. To graduate you need to take a class called Frontiers of Science (like a bunch of seminars on different topics) and two semesters of any math or science class. You could take psychology or astronomy, and they even have a list of courses that fulfill the science requirement for us non-math/science people like Physics for Poets, Surfaces and Knots, etc. It's possible to go to Columbia and not take math, and take very little math-like science classes if you don't want to do so.</p>

<p>Oh, and if you do end up going to Columbia, you don't have to take math or science up to a certain level, any math/science course of any level will do.</p>

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<p>Brown is probably most famous for the open curriculum, but they are wary of accepting people who would use the curriculum to avoid large components of a broad liberal education. in other words, you wouldn't want to answer the "why brown" question by saying you don't want to take math</p>

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<p>how about some west coast schools?</p>

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<p>He's right about Columbia. I took Psychology for my science requirement. But believe me, Psychology at Columbia was no joke. Years after graduating I would wake up in a cold sweat at night quoting B.F. Skinner and Freud. Ugh!!</p>

<p>As an alternative, Columbia also provided Geology 101 to satisfy the science/math requirement. We affectionately referred to that class as "Rocks for Jocks."</p>

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<p>Smith, Amherst and Brown</p>