[Giants]

Midterms and finals.  Happens to a lot of Stanford teams, and the quarter system doesn't help.

Which raises an interesting question. Are any other US colleges using the quarter system? Some CSU and UC campuses used to, but both systems have standardized on semesters.

this list is from 2023

https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/...n-college/

Wow, thanks. Interesting that Dartmouth and Northwestern use quarters.

I really liked the quarter system at SCU. I liked new classes every 10 weeks instead of every 15 weeks, and for those classes that required a year of instruction, you just took three quarters instead of two semesters. And if you regretted a class or if it didn't challenge you much -- or if it challenged you too much, you only had to suffer for ten weeks instead of 15.

I agree, Mick.  I attended Berkeley back in the day when they were on the quarter system.  Only taking three classes during each 10 week session was a dream compared to five classes over 15 weeks.  Besides which, the summer quarter offered a 20% reduction in fees to entice students to take courses at that time.  Heck, it saved me $20 (yes, fees were only $100/quarter during the normal academic year).  I guess that tells you something about how long ago it was….

[Giants]

Midterms and finals.  Happens to a lot of Stanford teams, and the quarter system doesn't help.

Which raises an interesting question. Are any other US colleges using the quarter system? Some CSU and UC campuses used to, but both systems have standardized on semesters.

this list is from 2023

https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/...n-college/

Wow, thanks. Interesting that Dartmouth and Northwestern use quarters.

I really liked the quarter system at SCU. I liked new classes every 10 weeks instead of every 15 weeks, and for those classes that required a year of instruction, you just took three quarters instead of two semesters. And if you regretted a class or if it didn't challenge you much -- or if it challenged you too much, you only had to suffer for ten weeks instead of 15.

I agree, Mick.  I attended Berkeley back in the day when they were on the quarter system.  Only taking three classes during each 10 week session was a dream compared to five classes over 15 weeks.  Besides which, the summer quarter offered a 20% reduction in fees to entice students to take courses at that time.  Heck, it saved me $20 (yes, fees were only $100/quarter during the normal academic year).  I guess that tells you something about how long ago it was….