So what are the "easy A" classes at Brown?

modestmelody
Fri, 31 May 2013 08:29:13 +0000

LoreumIpsum: as I’ve said to many, my advice in that situation (and I think he’s going to be a freshman?) is not to take a 5th class, especially year one.

At a lot of schools those lab courses count as 1.5 or 2x the credits of a humanities courses. Some people can take 5 of those classes a semester and kick ass, most of us cannot.

The “easy A” classes I know about are largely filler that probably won’t be all that stimulating. Intro to Russian Lit, Geo5, etc have a reputation for just being was that athletes can earn credits. Both of these courses have higher level classes that should be taken instead if you have a genuine interest in the material.

Far better to take a class that is really fascinating, regardless of difficulty and use SNC. No one I know at Brown ends up feeling they took too many classes SNC-- on the contrary, most wish they had taken far more.