<p>I've heard that at stanford, you don't get a lot of choices for selecting courses like columbia. Is this true?
Also, I was wondering what was the requirments for undergraduate graduation.</p>
<p>No, not true–there’s loads of choice in course selection at Stanford, including in the fulfillment of the General Educational Requirements (which you can read about on the Stanford website). I don’t think there is a lot of resemblance to Columbia’s Core, unless Columbia has recently modified its core substantially.</p>
<p>I always heard Columbia’s core was brutal. Stanford’s is pretty easy. You’ll fill most of the requirements easily with classes in your major or of interest to you. For the few really focused students, there may be a couple requirements that you wouldn’t normally do, although you are actually given a lot of freedom in picking classes from these. </p>
<p>Winter-spring IHUM is the worst one imo. Fall ihums were generally pretty good, but the quality seems to really go downhill for winter-spring. IHUM (introduction to the humanities), if you didn’t already know, consists of two courses (one in fall quarter, one in winter-spring). You are required to take it, and to do so you are given like 8-10 options. PWR (program in writing and rhetoric) is only two courses over two years and is generally pretty chill (you have 20-something classes to choose from, and in most classes you have a lot of freedom in choosing your research topics).</p>
<p>thanks guys. i might choose stanford as my college.</p>