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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  I'm sorry and should've been clearer.  During college application time, I've overheard seniors saying they looked at schools that didn't have a common core.  I assumed that meant they weren't required to take the 'common' courses like the ones I took when I was in college a millenium ago like Bio 100, Eng 101, etc.

Can I assume today's common core is similar?[/quote]

I'm the pp who asked the context, this is something totally different.

Some colleges have a set of courses that everyone has to take, or that everyone has to take with some variation (e.g. pick one of these 6 history classes).  Other colleges you have more choice about what to take outside your major.

Columbia and University of Chicago are two schools with reputations for extensive core requirements.  [b]Brown is a school with no core whatsoever[/b].  Most other schools are somewhere in between.[/quote]I hate to sound like a dunce but do I assume this means Brown students needn't take any of the basic courses (assuming there is no prerequisite for chosen courses)?[/quote]

Here's a link

http://brown.edu/academics/college/degree/

But it appears that, in order to graduate from Brown, you only need the following:

At least 30 classes

A major (except they call it a "concentration")

2 writing courses

To attend for 8 semesters

Of course, these are high quality rigorous courses, but there's nothing like a "math" requirement or a "foreign language" requirement unless you are going for a major that requires it.[/quote]

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