Toss-up: UC Berkeley or Dartmouth College??!! for Engineering

bluebayou
Fri, 04 Feb 2011 01:21:48 +0000

drax:

Dartmouth’s summer term is a full 10-week ‘quarter’. Unlike the UC’s which offer several different summer sequences (4-10 weeks), Dartmouth’s summer plan is only 10 weeks.

Yes, D does compact a full year of say, science or math, into two terms, or ~20 weeks. (UCLA would offer same over 3 terms, or 30 weeks, for example.) But to offset that condensed curriculum, Dartmouth ‘only’ take 3 courses a term. At other quarter colleges, students would take ~4 courses per term.

The real plus about interning during the year is that there is less competition for those internships. (Nearly everyone else is in school!)

Sorry, dunno about advanced calc.