[33girl]

Seriously, it all depends on your major and if you have lots of prerequisites you have to take. My junior year was DEFNITELY harder than my senior year (which included cake classes like Intro to Education and Piano Class I). Sometimes people take the harder classes in the summer to get them out of the way.

The only major I can think of where you are definitely going to be occupied for some time and not able to participate a lot is education, when you're student teaching - and most groups do have a "professional status" classification for that (and if they don't, they should).

If a woman says she'll be active her fifth year - believe her - rather than just assuming that she'll bail because she's older. This is why I don't like programs that focus on "senior retention" - just the existence of such a thing is essentially telling women that most seniors don't stay active (i.e. if you do, you'll be a weirdo) and that freshmen are the only members worth rushing.