30,000+ applications for 3,000 slots

[NHUConnfan]

I agree ... 3,000 does seem a little low. 17,800 total undergrads on the main campus and they would only allow for 3000 next fall? I think the number should be closer to 5,000.

You have to remember that the average time it takes to finish the degree is actually not 4 years, but is actually closer to 6 years.

I worked as an orientation leader at UConn. They try to anticipate 3,000 coming (meaning they accept more than 3,000). It's backfired on them in the past few years though, so I can imagine the actual number of acceptance letters going out will be much smaller than it has been in the past when UConn was not option #1.

 

[freescooter]

A number of us would burn up our pass/fail options on some of the courses the Nursing School students needed to take.

Do they still offer Chemistry for Chicks? I think it was Chemistry 101 or something. It was the less demanding Chemistry class and it was required for Nursing students, who in my undergraduate days were mostly female. A couple of guys, including me, took it with the dual motives: 1. getting our required science class out of the way without the same level of stress that engineers and science majors and pt students had with their fairly brutal chemistry class and 2. hitting on women. Truth be told #2 was the first motive for most of us.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

We took Organic Chem without the lab and such, others, maybe 101, not sure anymore. Think 101 was for non-science related fields like Psych. We did it mostly to meet girls as we only had the same two girls in all of our required classes. They always sat together, front row.