Is yale curriculum flexible?

zoebrittany
Sun, 14 Oct 2018 16:39:31 +0000

@allyphoe - Being a student at Yale a “million years ago” was probably quite different than it is for students, like me, who are currently enrolled. And as someone who did trust the placement system and was consequently placed into advanced language, math, science, and econ courses, I can say that doing well in those courses was the hardest academic thing I’ve ever done, and I went to a very rigorous high school. Personally, I’d prefer language classes five days a week, and to take courses with students who weren’t repeating advanced math and science classes that they’d already taken in high school. But many of my classmates, unlike me, were aware that these classes were much, much, more difficult than their high school versions, and opted to take lower level classes despite being placed into advanced ones. This is something I wish I’d know as a first year, which is why I’m “sharing” here. Just my two cents.