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Originally Posted by LoggerTheta
I have a different take on this. The way it's put in the song implies that sorority women take less than a full course load in order to have more time to do social things. I'd be offended if someone assumed I wasn't going to graduate in four years (which I did), and my major had the most prerequisites, and required courses out of any other at my school.
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Well congratulations to you. Our university tends to accept more students than it can accommodate (sp?). Here's how the 5 year plan happens at UMD...
3-8 sections of a specific class that all Arts, Science and Letters students MUST take, mainly freshman year (the 8 section classes were 100person Natural Science lectures)
30-40 students allowed per class unless the rarity that it was a lecture class
1000s of students trying to get in those classes.
Add to that, you can't take most of your core classes until you take those prerequisites. The math class I was supposed to take when I was an elementary ed major was filled by the time I could register my 1st AND 2nd year. There were about 2 or 3 required math classes after that.
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Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB
My friends and I all graduated in four years, from different schools including Univ. of Washington and a variety of private schools. In fact, I hardly know anyone from a private school that took five years...just athletes, actually. I was pre-med my first two years, then did a 180 and switched to the communications division, picked up a minor in sociology, and I still graduated in four years from a liberal arts school with a thorough core curriculum. It CAN and IS done.
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Please reread my post that you commented. I said THAT I KNOW. I didn't say it was impossible. Remember, small commuter campuses don't have as many lecture classes that fit 100+ students. Science classes and a handful of electives were held in lecture halls. The biggest classroom class I had held maybe 40 students, and there were about 15 people on the waitlist who didn't get in. This was a class that most would take in their 3rd of 4th year.
I wish people on here would STOP thinking that every campus is the same.