<p>Looking for schools with good writing programs that do not have a lot of general requirements.(I’m terrible at math). Probably an LAC or small university under 6000.I have 800 on both verbal and writing SAt but 550 on math. Thanks for the help!!</p>
<p>Well few places that you would be interested in are specifically going to require math. Math is required of all students are colleges like MIT, Caltech, Harvey Mudd, but you obviously are not going to apply there.</p>
<p>Many non technical colleges might require some sort of science, but often this can be bio, which is not particularly mathematical. If you want to avoid anything math or science at all, then it gets tougher. Amherst and Brown, both impossible to get into, have no distribution requirements. Wesleyan has them, but they are optional. Hamilton I think has writing, but no math or science requirements.</p>
<p>Brandeis has a good writing program, but it’s not nationally recognised or anything. but they have very few requirements. the only ‘math’ thing they required is a quanititative reasoning class, which can be a historical survey or “chemistry and art”. you’ll also need to take a class in a science, but again, that could be ‘The History of Physics’ if you wanted it to be.</p>
<p>I’m wondering if Reed might not be a good option?</p>
<p>Sarah Lawrence would be a good option. Hollins University has the nation’s best program.</p>
<p>Oberlin College is one of just a handful of colleges nationwide with a Creative Writing Major, all on its own and not in the English department, but here’s the deal: courses are so popular and major slots very competitive (portfolio required during soph year; if denied, can be resubmitted). So you won’t know when you apply as a freshman if you’ll be able to become that major. Getting into those classes isn’t easy if you’re not a major, I think but am not sure on that fine point.
For Math, while they don’t require “Math l0l” or basic college algebra or any specific course, they do have a distribution requirement in QP courses, i.e. those that require Quantitative Proficiency. They also have a few courses designed for people who struggle with Math; check out their catalogue online for “0-level” math courses. I guess they understand that it’s not beneficial to put math-challenged heads (excellent in other areas) into the same beginning classes as future math or science majors!<br>
So my D, who isn’t strong in Math, satisfied her math requirement there with a course in Musical Acoustics. It’s cool because now when we walk around together, she can analyze the acoustics of the buildings we walk into.
I believe she had to take 9 credits (3 courses) in which QP was an aspect of the course. Some of these overlapped with her Natural Science distribution, so that helped with the distribution in areas not her greatest interest.
She ended up with a major in Religion/Concentration in Jewish Studies and a Minor in Art. LOVED it there.</p>
<p>you might try going international; British/Canadian/European schools tend to allow much greater specialization into a major area.</p>
<p>alot of art schools don’t require math classes if they do it’s probably a basic algebra 1 class or geometry</p>
<p>yeah Reed has some distribution requirements depending on the major, but you can pick the category that you do the requirements in - for example, if I majored in Psych there, I could pick Literature & Languages as my category, or History & Social Sciences, or the Arts - it doesn’t have to be math or science. Sounds good to me :-D</p>
<p>Wesleyan also doesn’t have dist. requirements, nor does Amherst. Amherst doesn’t really have a creative writing major but they do at least have a concentration in it within an English major (just looked it up)</p>
<p>Yeah I got an 800 on CR and a 600 on math and my best friend got an 800 CR and a 510 math. My dad was like, “at least you broke 600” LOL</p>
<p>Thanks for the help. Any info on Bard?</p>
<p>Their President was interviewed on National Public Radio recently to describe Bard’s approach to teaching writing. He said great writers are also great readers, and in fact they become great writers by reading more. So, they use their writing class time to read (a lot) and take apart great examples of many different kinds of writing, then send students back to their own time for assignments in order to try out those approaches in their own writing. That is different than having students write on their own and come in to use class time for “peer review” in which students defend and critique each others’ writings. It sounds positive (to me) and his faculty believes it’s more valuable use of college class time than peer review. Hear GOOD stuff instead of hear bad stuff in class… I guess it’s different enough to be a national topic for radio discussion!
They have a gorgeous new performing arts building in Annandale-on-Hudson (not sure I got that town right), which enhances your participation in theater or hearing staged works.
It’s all about original thinkers. My D took a summer creative writing program there while in h.s. which they said was equivalent to their freshman writing course. Lots of good stuff about “thought and word”, you can’t know what you’re thinking until you write it; finding “le mot juste” (the exact right word to express your thought or feeling). Fine professor, encouraging to a writer.
The school is reputed to be full of those who think outside-the-box with intelligence and creativity.</p>
<p>What great info!!Thanks so much</p>
<p>Bennington boasts many famous writers among it’s graduates and does not require that you take math. Admissions is also very forgiving about those big gaps in the SAT’s.</p>
<p>also, the writing program is similar to Bard’s-- a lot of reading is considered to be vital to learning how to write.</p>
<p>Just by looking at Bard’s SAT breakdown on College Board, you can see you’d be a good fit.</p>
<p>SAT Reasoning Verbal: 640 - 720
SAT Reasoning Math: 580 - 690</p>
<p>Although you are not exactly in the range for Math, you have to think of it this way: They only consider test scores if you send them, and admissions told me that they would only consider them if they would help you. Therefore, the two 800s would help, and they would disregard the Math score.</p>
<p>check out conn college</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins has a writing department that is separate from their English dept. - called “The Writing Seminars”. Even though it is Hopkins, I do not believe there are any math requirements for that major. There are no core requirements, and the distribution requirements are pretty broad.</p>
<p>if u can get in - brown/amherst</p>