Projected Courseloads for Incoming Transfers

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Sat, 05 May 2007 13:07:52 +0000

Overseas Programs | Washington University in St. Louis;

Check that link out…you can click on whatever major/area of interest you have or on whatever country you’re interested in and it will tell you about it. To my knowledge, there are summer study programs for many languages, though a few don’t have it. I think they are around $3-4K for the program (housing, education, meal stipend) and you get to take back 6 credits (two classes) in most cases. Classes taken abroad are either credit/no-credit or graded, but the latter is true only if you are taught by a WashU faculty member.

The clusters seem like a lot but I guess they really aren’t. There are four main clusters - Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Language, and Historical and Textual. I’ve transferred in with enough to fill three clusters - NS, SS, and HT, but I haven’t taken any language classes so obviously that requirement is not fulfilled. In addition, regardless of the number of classes that transfer for you, you must still take one more class in each cluster area. You also have to fulfill one class for the following: Writing Intensive, Quantitative Analysis, English Comp, Cultural Diversity, and Social Differentiation. Again, that sounds like a lot, but if you’re smart you will double dip by taking classes that fulfill both a cluster course requirement and one of the specific course requirements that I’ve just mentioned.

WeslEyan is still the best school ever. If I don’t get in though, it’ll lose that title. WashU has been really awesome about financial aid so far so I’m impressed in that sense…I’m probably going to visit the campus this month after school lets out but am not sure about when I’ll come for orientation.