<p>@rhg3rd You have a point, but an overdrawn or doctrinaire one. Reed’s curriculum is demanding – of time. For me, back in the day, while I took 1.5 years of chemistry my first year (thinking I might make that my major), it practically killed me when taking an extra course second semester was competing with math and Hum and Russian language for attention. Sometimes it makes sense to defer a class or two to summer elsewhere. There are some damn fine colleges and universities back home where I grew up in Los Angeles. In fact, I attended summer school to start another language, German. And it worked fine for me later at Reed. I can see the same logic for many other courses.</p>