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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They have very different core course requirements.  A student should care about this.[/quote]

YES. This is so important, and frankly not talked often enough. My DC who is engineering focused is purposely steering clear of certain schools because of this. [/quote]

Matters for some kids, not for others.  Northwestern's distribution requirements are broad enough that if your DC would naturally take courses in a variety of departments, they're no big deal.  They are similar to what I encountered in college and I can think of only 2 courses I took that I wouldn't have had there been no requirements at all.  Brown has no core or distribution requirements (just a writing requirement which, coincidentally, accounts for one of the two courses I took only because I had to).

But, yeah, requirements are always worth looking at.  I'm always surprised when kids end up at a school like UChicago without understanding what a significant part of their education will be devoted to the Core.

For a potential bio major, I'd also recommend looking at departmental course offerings and prerequisites (and the extent to which they can be satisfied by AP or IB, if relevant).  Biology is increasingly interdisciplinary and different schools have different expectations about what background knowledge students need in chem, physics, and quantitative methods to do college-level biology.  [/quote]

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