what's with the extra fee to take some classes?

coldcomfort
Fri, 10 Jun 2005 20:47:44 +0000

I was looking at the course offerings on line and I noticed that after the description of quite a few course in the sciences there is the line:

Supplemental course fee required.

Those of you at Dartmouth, what’s with this? Are you seriously telling me that after paying Dartmouth’s huge tuition that a number of the courses then require you to pay an extra fee to take that course? I can’t believe that is true, but what else could “supplemental course fee required” mean. Is this true at any of the other Ivys or have they just buried it so deep that I can’t find it?

Anyone who is in the know, please explain. Thanks.