Need insight on Fordham, UMD, UMass, Boulder

twoinanddone
Mon, 12 Apr 2021 20:04:54 +0000

I went to school with a woman who wanted to be an engineer but who also wanted to take a lot of other classes in college. She just planned right from the start to take 5 years (so much easier and cheaper to do in our day). She took piano and mythology and English and enjoyed them all. CU didn’t have minors in those days and if she’d double majored she would have needed 150 credits or more (A&S and engineering were different colleges), so she just explored what she wanted and didn’t worry credit.

My daughter is an engineer and needed 131 credits to graduate. I think 15 credits were the ABET requirements (2 writing courses, a world history) and at the very end, her last semester, I think she had 4-6 credits just to complete the 131 (took tennis and Spanish). All the other things were engineering-ish. Her school had a lot of music for fun activities (a pep band, a small orchestra with professors and staff, musicals) but most students did those for fun, not for credit.