Good resource for where school falls on open/core curriculum

JMS111
Fri, 31 Aug 2018 18:15:02 +0000

^^^ Agreed. Taking an example in the LAC realm, Occidental is a school with real breadth requirements that don’t match ACTA’s ideas. And the way in which Oxy organizes its core requirements itself defies the sort of categorization ACTA uses. And even taking those things as givens, it is inaccurate as to what Oxy does require.

I agree it is important to understand what a school’s breadth requirements are in evaluating whether they are a good fit for an applicant’s interests and preferences, but the ACTA site is not a neutral attempt to merely catalog distribution requirements. They are highly subjective ratings undergirded by a prescriptive agenda.