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I think the perspective of faculty who teach general ed classes is obviously going to be biased-more students graduating in 3 years means less students taking their general ed classes.

With the way that college tuition is increasing, I think its highly immoral to not want to push 3 year degrees. Granted I'm biased, since I've never thought very highly of the general ed classes I had to take in college (being a voracious reader myself).

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Just because you do it in 3 years doesn't mean you take any less gen ed, the degree requirements are exactly the same; you just have to work at a higher intensity for 3 years instead of 4.

Well, one way of graduating earlier is to do what you did-another tack would be to do what some people are suggesting, and mimic places like Britain (correct me if I'm wrong here) where people mostly take courses in their field of study, with much less gen ed.

"with much less gen ed."

Then you have the local community college / votech experience. There's not much difference in the degree requirements between a AS and BS other than a whole lot of liberal arts and one or two senior level classes.

Wesleyan has no hard-and-fast gen ed requirements, which makes this easier to pull off for students.

Some majors do require them for Honors, though.

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