<p>Hi, I'm a freshman at Tulane. One thing that has shocked me is how little writing I do in all my classes. Granted, I'm not taking English, but so far I have only written one paper! And that was for tides! Even the exams have very little writing. I thought one of the main points of college was to improve one's writing skills. I'm in a 300 level art history class, a 300 level honors french class, a 200 level bio class...my friends at other schools have written over twenty pages at this point! Has anyone else found this to be the case?</p>
<p>What type of evaluation do you have most frequently? What kind of homework?</p>
<p>(Sorry, high school senior applying to Tulane and curious! 
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<p>My Sophmore daughter writes A LOT. One of her classes (a history I think) has no tests, the entire grade is determined through writing projects.</p>
<p>My D also had a lot of papers and related writing projects. I guess you just happened to get a group of profs that don’t happen to do that so much, juiceberry. Probably just a “luck of the draw” sort of thing. Of course, bio probably wouldn’t have papers, and my D took a 300 level French grammar type class that didn’t involve much writing in the sense of expository writing. So it sounds like your schedule maybe wasn’t so conducive to having a lot of papers, either.</p>