[JamesCH95]

Originally Posted by JesseK

Classes I could have done without in college as an Electrical Engineer at Georgia Tech:

• Psychology (the epitome of a chaotic cycle of conundrums that are never solved )
• U.S. History (it happened one way in high school; it still happened the same way in college)
• U.S. Government (Too centric on historical implications on current law; If I wanted to become lawyer I wouldn't have chosen EE)
• World Literature (True, I'm a terrible communicator in many respects -- but 1,000 years of historical literature in 3 months cannot fix that)
• Calculus I (was everything I learned in [non-AP] high school Calculus)

That's an entire semester of credits! Oh the things I could have done with an extra three months of time during college (perhaps studied abroad in Lorraine, France)! I would have much rather taken an AP Exam and exempted out of those classes (bear in mind that I've been really good at Math since a very young age, so YMMV).

That sounds like a very unfortunate curriculum, clearly a repeat of HS, which was not my experience at all. I also had the fortunate circumstance of being taught Chemistry 101 and Calculus I and II by the chairs of those respective departments, who were very rigorous professors and definitely expanded outside of the AP topic coverage. My humanities classes covered subjects not typically available in HS classes, so they were at least new material, and we were allowed a choice of several topics for almost every semester, including fun topics like "the history of technology".