<p>I think my D would do best at a school where she didn't have to juggle 5 courses at at time. I'd love to look at colleges with a block schedule (like Colorado College), trimester or a 4-1-4 calendar, rather than 2 semesters. Unfortunately, none of the directories has schools organized by calendar.</p>
<p>Does anyone know of any college offering these alternative calendars?</p>
<p>stanford is on a quater schedule</p>
<p>WHILLIAMS is on 4-1-4</p>
<p>Carleton College is on 3 Terms</p>
<p>Middlebury College is 4-1-4</p>
<p>MIT is on 4-1-4</p>
<p>those are all the good ones</p>
<p>Most schools don't require kids to take 5 courses a semester; 4 is the standard, 5 is doable but usually not necessary. In terms of semester organization, both Williams and Colby have 4-1-4 schedules, and Bates is 4-4-1; the short single-course terms are usually for taking something other than a standard academic course.</p>
<p>Cornell College-block</p>
<p>Northwestern University- Trimesters</p>
<p>Elon 4-1-4</p>
<p>University of chicago - trimester
colorado college - block</p>
<p>A lot of the small Southern LACs are 4-1-4 or 4-4-1, although the 1 is often used for study abroad.</p>
<p>UChicago is quarters (Fall, Winter and Spring with Summer quarter being summer break) and students take 3-4 classers per quarter which ends up being 2 a day or so.</p>
<p>Dartmouth, MIT, Chicago, Williams, Middlebury, Stanford, Northwestern.</p>
<p>Washington & Lee University in VA - LAC has 4-1-4 also</p>
<p>For a safety school, U of Delaware is 4-1-4, with the middle part being optional, so my cousin who goes there had a 2-month long winter break this year.</p>
<p>Colorado College, as you noted, is the King of Block. I have a young friend who goes there and loves it. He is bright, but was somewhat of a scattered student in high school and had some behavior issues in high school (things like getting caught with his girlfriend in his dorm room) which almost ruined his college chances. He is thriving at Colorado College.</p>
<p>jhu is 4-1-4</p>
<p>Cornell College (not Cornell University) in Iowa uses the same block schedule as Colorado College. You might also look at schools with a tri-semester schedule where you take fewer classes over 3 shorter terms. Some schools with this schedule include Lawrence U in Wisc. and Knox College in Illinois, but there are others as well.</p>