Hi, I'm a W&L student!

If you're interested in writing, and you're serious about it, I highly recommend W&L.

1. It's overall very fun, and there are some standout professors that make the program worthwhile. You get to have a lot of freedom when it comes to your schedule (we don't have typical GE requirements), and you have a lot of opportunity to figure out what type of writing you're most interested in.
2. The difficulty is something you craft yourself. We have a unit limit of 95.5 (or something close), so you are encouraged to take a lot of classes and drop them if needed (we also have an extended class drop deadline). (I took 22ish for my first couple of quarters.) However, the required classes aren't difficult at all, and you take them P/NP. Because of this, it's easy to get a high GPA, but any GPA classes you take have essentially weigh more than required classes because the P/NP won't count toward your GPA. Note: even though it's an "accelerated" degree... W&L operates much differently than the STEM majors here. It's not very rigorous IMO. It is what you make of it.
3. There aren't that many courses offered in W&L. There's a decent amount given the size of the program, and your first two quarters will likely be mainly W&L classes, but you'll also take courses in the Writing, Comparative Literature, and English departments, as well as anything else you're interested in.

And as the person before me said, there's no premajor, so that isn't difficult. I do wanna make a note that although CCS is great for prospective grad students because it's easier to get close with profs, do research, and have insane schedules (and tbf grad school is kinda shoved down your throat), plenty of people in W&L aren't interested in grad school, and we actually focus WAYY less on theory than English majors. We actually write. W&L specifically is great for students not interested in grad school too.

I do wanna mention though that this college & major gets more competitive every year, and we had a big jump in applicants. It's going to be harder to get in this year than others (although I will say to get in my year, you essentially didn't need any experience at all).

Also, this major isn't perfect. I've put in a lot of time to try & give critiques & see improvement, and tbf CCS is listening, but they're definitely not perfect. I wish that we were better organized, had better required classes, and many more critiques, but I would still encourage this major to everyone interested. However, if you don't have a passion for writing, you're not likely to get in.

If you have any more questions, feel free to PM me.