Uchicago - how crushing is the quarter system?

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Anonymous wrote:To give you an idea of how much downtime there is if a kid takes 3 classes per quarter - my DC is also an athlete w 4-5 hours of practice a day plus also a research assistant and a TA and part of a social club. To do all this, you need discipline in time management.

That's true but a kid doesn't have to do athletics or sign up for multiple activities. If all you did was three classes plus may be one EC, there's plenty of non class time to focus on papers and studying. My point is that to a large degree the schedule pressure can be self-driven. Unless you are on work-study.

Don’t you generally need 4 courses about half the time (and 3 the other half) to accumulate enough credits to graduate in 4 years?

Also, workload may be a function of number/selection of courses (with the latter not always in the student’s control, both because lots of (STEM?/core) courses are sequences and because undergrads do get shut out of top choice classes), but pace is a function of the length of the term.

My SLAC was 3-3-3. Meaning 3 courses for ten weeks (I think). I'm the one who posted above that I felt I was just getting settled in when midterms and papers were upon me. DH was also on the same system at his SLAC and feels the same way. But, again, I wouldn't turn down Chicago for that reason.