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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. I appreciate this conversation about open curricula. To clear things up first, DC is not interested in this path to avoid either math or writing — the opposite, in fact. They do just fine in both disciplines and are having a hard time with the constraints of having to fit their academic curiosity into the parameters of a major. One thing they know is that engineering likely is not the path for them. And, they have brought up Brown, so mention of that school also is not off the mark. But we are being realistic about admissions — hence the question about building a balanced list and finding schools where acceptance is more reliable.

Wesleyan is a school we had briefly considered but not in depth. We are exploring it more thoroughly now and will add it to our “to visit” list. Thanks for the resounding suggestion of that and other open curriculum schools!

Thanks again for this discussion—I appreciate it![/quote]

I graduated from Wes almost 30 years ago and am kind of delighted to see that the core classes requirement remains exactly the same as it was back in the day!

I am a physician but majored (& did my thesis) in chemistry. I have very fond memories of most of the non-science classes I had to take at Wes - I think I took 1 extra class in each of the the non-science categories (so 4 “arts & humanities” and 4 “social and behavioral sciences” classes). I still think about those classes today: social psychology, a philosophy course on good and evil, intro to govt, sociology, prose writing, American art from ~1700-1945, and the plays of Ibsen and Shaw.

I also took maybe 40-50 science classes, so no problems hitting my “natural science and mathematics” quota.

I think that it was a high quality education, too. And my government prof apparently had a crystal ball, since in the early 90s he was really agitated about gerrymandering and the emerging influence of PACs, and, sadly, all of his concerns have come to pass.

One awesome thing about Wes is the lack of a foreign language requirement. I am simply terrible at memorizing and foreign languages, and it was a huge relief to not get stuck wasting time and making myself miserable by taking a foreign language.[/quote]

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