Class of 2018 Course Selection

BairnOwl
Fri, 18 Jul 2014 01:25:20 +0000

fireandrain, thanks for your advice, though my situation may be slightly different than you expected.

I’m actually an international student from Australia. Our calendars are different, so I graduated from high school in November 2013. Since then, I’ve had one semester in my state’s prestigious law school (there are undergraduate law degrees in Australia) where I took five courses (four is the norm; I had to request). I got pretty good grades, a 3.8/4.0 on the American scale if the online conversion tool is correct.

I think I’m prepared for five courses at Brown, especially since I took Introductory Microeconomics in law school; I probably know about half the material in ECON0110 already. Also, I think you can drop a class at any time before finals? That sounds like a great safety net to me.

For CS, I’ve heard that it’s time-consuming, so I’ve tried to ensure that I don’t have another time-consuming and/or difficult class (like MATH0350 and PHYS0070, maybe?) in my schedule. What other Brown classes are known to be very time-consuming or difficult?