<p>I'm calling Smith on Monday but I thought I'd ask here as well.</p>
<p>I thought that it said on the website what the requirements are to be considered a transfer student. I thought it said something like "You must have such-and-such number of college credit hours." I'm looking on the site, though, and I can't find this information anywhere. So does anyone happen to know what the criteria is? The information is probably somewhere very obvious and I'm just missing something, but I'd appreciate the help if anyone knows.</p>
<p>I'm not so sure if there would be much requirement since smith does not have any requirement. (It's true, you can take whatever class you want!) Maybe they will ask you certain credits to be completed but I don't think they will ask you to complete particular <em>classes</em></p>
<p>That's what I meant -- I know they don't say, "Well, you must have taken English 1010, Math 0980, and History 2010," rather they say something along the lines of "You must have 45 credit hours to be considered a transfer." I was just wondering what that particular number was. :)</p>
<p>But I hadn't heard that you were allowed to take whatever you want. Does that mean there are no "core" classes or anything like that?</p>
<p>Smith has no "required" classes save for one first-year writing-intensive seminar for which there are dozens of alternatives offered.</p>
<p>Certain minimal "breadth" requirements must be met, however, if a student wishes to be considered for Latin honors, i.e., Cum Laude, Summa Cum Laude, Magna Cum Laude.</p>
<p>i think to be considered a transfer student, you need to have had some college work. i do not think smith mandates a minimum. the ada comstock program, however, does require a minimum of 32 transferable credit hours.
perhaps that is where you read of a credit minimum</p>
<p>I am a transfer student as well, and recently got accepted to smith. I thought I needed a min. of 15 credits to transfer, so I waited a while before applying. Turns out I was wrong. I dont think you need any set amount. Good luck!</p>
<p>A true LAC should have no distribution requirements, as studewnts should concentrate on a major of study, and then take classes of interest to them. This is what makes the difference between these school as compared to others. Everyone in your classes decided to be there by choice, not because they were forced to. This provides for much more interesting classes with great dialoque.</p>
<p>{A true LAC should have no distribution requirements, as studewnts should }</p>
<p>An interesting study was done by Brown after they discontinued their requirements.
Im not sure of the exact figure, but I believe 95% of the students ended up taking classes that would have fulfilled the requirement had they still been in place.
But I agree with you, students should be allowed to take courses that are of interest to them.
I realize finances shouldnt have an effect on a college curriculum, but if Im paying 1500.00 a week for my daughter to attend college she should be able to take classes she enjoys.
I forgot, that was another reason she chose Smith. A couple of her other colleges still had reqs.....</p>
<p>Interestingly, that was a top priority for my D as well. Amherst and Smith were her top two, and Brown third. All have no distribution requirements. Tufts is next, although they have dist. req. They do however, have something valled the "EX college", which is an adjunct to their regular college, and a place where students can fulfill these requirements through courses like The Simpsons, etc. She likes the freedom of selecting classes that interest her, not because she had to be there.</p>
<p>My D would have applied to Brown if she had liked what she read about Providence Festival Ballet on their website. I think Brown is the closest Ivy "comp" to Smith. D applied to Yale because of its strong undergrad emphasis (compared to, say, Harvard and many other large universities) and applied to Harvard because...well, it was Harvard. (Her comment was funny after visiting, though: I liked it better than I thought I would.)</p>
<p>TD, Brown is not affiliated with Festival Ballet in Providence. I can tell you that Festival is my D's arch-nemesis; as she dances with the State Ballet of RI. Festival has a few ringers or professionals from Russia dancing with them and they get paid. Honestly, they are not that good. State Ballet has all amateur dancers, but Herci Marsden, Artistic Director, gets alot out of them. Your D's intuition was excellent; Festival is not a friendly ballet company.</p>
<p>FWIW, My D won the Harvard Book Award last year, and had no intentions of applying there. She kind of felt the same way os your D about the place. There is something to say about a place like Smith where undergrads are the center of attention. Couple that with the fact that at Smith "women undergrads" are the center of attention, and it makes it that much more appealing to my D. (do you think I've spoiled her too much?) <em>LOL</em></p>
<p>BJM8, D was looking for ballet opportunties that she could explore while she was at Brown and the State Ballet didn't come up when she Googled. She said, "They're Russians!" in a flat voice when she looked at the Festival Ballet website and that was the end of it; her training is a fusion of Balanchine and RAD...there are some "Russian" studios locally that she doesn't think much of. </p>
<p>I'm guessing...your D isn't applying to Brown because it's too close to home? </p>
<p>Btw, the other evening I ran across a photo of an ancestral tombstone in a cemetery within view of what I'd guess is Providence Harbor...the birth date was 1629...I now forget the death date.</p>
<p>The cemetary must be Swan Point in Providence, part of the cemetary is on the river. It is quite an historical place, and a beautiful setting (for a cemetary) <em>LOL</em></p>
<p>Brown was too close to home, and quite honestly, she wasn't blown away by them. She visited twice, and showed no desire to attend. One of the factors was what many students had told her regarding the cutthroat way students dealt with each other, particularly in biology.</p>