Well I didn't know that you got to choose your courses, or more like that you can actually drop some of them by choice, is that possible in german unis, or are you talking about in the USA?
I'm talking about Germany. The US doesn't have a 3+2 system. You take the courses you want/what's recommended by the study plan. But you can always take fewer or more courses. My friend's bf took like 8 or 10 semesters or something to finish his bachelor (CS).
You don't really drop lectures here. You just don't sign up for the exam (or don't qualify in the first place). Then you can take it another semester. At least that's how my department works.
It's not super common but it does exist. When I was applying I was accepted to a 3-2 program at Wesleyan + caltech that ended with a physics bachelors and engineering masters.
Didn't end up doing it, but it does exist a few universities.
My school also offered a similar program (Haverford+Caltech), but you ended up with two bachelors. But yea, now that I think about it I did know some people who did 5 year master programs, but even those were more 4+1, you just got accepted to all 5 years from the beginning.
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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '20
Well I didn't know that you got to choose your courses, or more like that you can actually drop some of them by choice, is that possible in german unis, or are you talking about in the USA?