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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you everyone. Rural is really not her vibe ! But the open curriculum colleges seem to be in rural places. We have to think about priorities.[/quote]

Rochester (UofR), Middletown (Wes), Poughkeepsie (Vassar): not rural[/quote]
Wes is not open curriculum.[/quote]

OK, look. I get that you have a bone to pick with Wes on this. But every open curriculum school interprets it differently. There is no professional accreditation agency validating that a school is or is not open curriculum. Wes says it is, and it is widely acknowledged to be.

Your objection is duly noted, however.[/quote]
9 required courses for some majors, to do a thesis, or to graduate with honors is not open curriculum. No school making that claim is even close to those requirements. No rational individual can call that an open curriculum. We can argue about where to draw the line with 2-3 courses; not 9.[/quote]

LOL, I can and will call it open curriculum—because there is no formal definition, and (most importantly) you can graduate without completing this requirement. So, we’ll agree to disagree.[/quote]
Let applicants decide if this is open curriculum and compare it to schools that really are, if that’s what they value. The majority will find there is no comparison between 9 de facto required courses and schools that require 1. Many will conclude, like I have, that Wes is being disingenuous. You value things differently. Something tells me you did not do a thesis. And that’s OK — I would not have recommend that path for you.[/quote]

Good lord. I did two theses—undergrad and grad (but don’t believe theses are a necessary part of an undergraduate education). And I attended a non-open-curriculum school and am looking at open curriculum schools for my kid, so have a good sense of how open and non differ, as well as how the open schools differ in their interpretations. We’ve toured Brown, Vassar, and Wes (twice), and I can confirm that Wes does, in fact, explain the distribution and says it’s recommended but not required.[/quote]

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