College Choices

[Bosh]

oh and then there's Chicago's core curriculum FROM HELL.
still probably your best bet, despite all the required classes, its a bit silly to choose Tufts just because of the better location.

[Caesar the Great]

Originally posted by Boshko
oh and then there's Chicago's core curriculum FROM HELL.
still probably your best bet, despite all the required classes, its a bit silly to choose Tufts just because of the better location.

yeah thats what I've been thinking too

i'm not a big fan of required classes, but i can deal with it

[GePap]

Originally posted by Albert Speer
GePap:

I was accepted by Temple but the costs are prohibitive. I'm trying to get financial aide but I do not have access to my parent's tax forms. I'm trying to work something out

Well, you did make it to a fine university...

I do hope your tax issue works out. Also, write to the finatial aid office at Temple: it is just a chance but it might work..I got my university to give me a few thousand more in aid by explaining my situation.

I guess you will also have to look into education loans: you state might offer some and of course the Feds offer subsidized loans as well. It is pain to leave school with 20k in debts, but sometimes that is the price one has to pay.

[GePap]

Originally posted by Caesar the Great


yeah thats what I've been thinking too

i'm not a big fan of required classes, but i can deal with it

Blah.. they cut the core significantly:

as of right now, you have to take:

2 quarters of calculus (specially a math orioented person), 2 quarters of biology, 2 of physical sciences

3 of Social studies, 2 or 3 of humanities, 1 or 2 of art and music, 2 or 3 of history (they call it civ)

you have to be proficient in one more langauge (pass a test, or take the classes) and you have to pass the physical exams and the swimming exam.

[Caesar the Great]

art music unless of course i can take a quarter of just listening to music

bio any chance i could place out of it with my 5 on the ap bio exam? i should probably ask them... or just find it on the website right now

everything else seems fine, except maybe social studies? i certainly hope i never have to take anything like native american women's history *shudders at the thought*

edit: never a puke smiley when you need it

[Giant_Squid]

I am bitter against Tufts because they rejected me. Therefore, I advise Chicago, despite it being in Chicago, which is certainly a downside to anything.

GePap, I have been told that the football chant for Indiana U is ""Repel them. Repel them. Induce them to relinquish the spheroid."

[GePap]

art music unless of course i can take a quarter of just listening to music

Not going to happen. My art class was basic art hisotry, so it was nice and easy. The thing is, the more simple and fun they make it sound, the worse it is. You would not believe the sort of pains people I knew had with a class called "Cut and paste".

bio any chance i could place out of it with my 5 on the ap bio exam? i should probably ask them... or just find it on the website right now

Yeah, a 5 on AP Bio will get you out. They do honor a few AP's, basically only the math and science ones.

everything else seems fine, except maybe social studies? i certainly hope i never have to take anything like native american women's history *shudders at the thought*

You get to choose your classes, so you would never be forced to read such things if you don't want to. You will end up reading Socrate's apology and Plato's Republic. there is no way you get out of the UofC without having read both of those. Marx and Smith are also extremely likely. Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau also are almost totally unavoidable.

[Al B. Sure!]

Giant Squid?

[GePap]

Originally posted by Giant_Squid
I am bitter against Tufts because they rejected me. Therefore, I advise Chicago, despite it being in Chicago, which is certainly a downside to anything.

GePap, I have been told that the football chant for Indiana U is ""Repel them. Repel them. Induce them to relinquish the spheroid."

Well, that is not nerdy, that is just plain awefull.

[KrazyHorse]

awefull or awful?

[Caesar the Great]

plato's republic

not as big a fan or locke and hobbes, although I like locke's non political stuff

never really got into rousseau but voltaire isn't bad

marx was always a little too.... wrong, for my tastes same goes for adam smith i guess haha

[GePap]

Originally posted by Frogger
awefull or awful?

I made great use of spellcheckers in college, but I swear my typing spelling is far worse than by hand.

[Giant_Squid]

Plato's Republic is one of the most absurd pieces of garbage it has ever been my distinct displeasure not to have been able to avoid reading. The guy's theories have more holes in them than an Iraqi civilian, and they're totalitarian in some of the worst sorts of ways besides. Not to mention the guy kind of stole Socrates and then twisted him around to serve his own pseudo-evil purposes. *doesn't like Plato*

Rousseau's kind of cool though...not his general will stuff, which is just weird, but I like his philosophies on the state of nature and all.

Speer, yes, it's Giant Squid. And how is everyone's favorite person-who-is-not-a-Nazi-but-just holds-Nazi-views-and-has-a-Nazi-name doing? Have people stopped teasing you about that yet?

[Caesar the Great]

well i think we all know who isn't the philosopher king among us

[GePap]

he's one of them bronze's....

Though I agree that Plato's reasoning is far away from totally reasonable.