<p>A disadvantage of the quarter system, at least at my school, is generally some classes will have 3 tests/3 papers (at the 1/3 marks) or 2 tests/papers (at the 1/2 marks). This means that most quarters, once the first midterm hits at the 3rd or 4th week, it’s pretty much midterms/finals/projects/papers almost every week the rest of the way, with maybe a chill week or two thrown in. </p>
<p>Also your schedule is off for some summer internships as well as seeing friends during break (unless your friends are also quarter system). </p>
<p>That said, quarter system in my opinion is far better than the semester system for reasons Arbiter mentioned. Also I’ll add it’s generally less classes at any given time. At my school most people take around 3-4 legit classes per quarter.</p>