Pressure cooker schools
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This comment about Reed made me wonder what other pressure cooker schools you know of? DS is just starting to build his list and tour and neither him nor I want a pressure cooker. |
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Chicago - where fun goes to die. Swarthmore |
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| CMU |
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| Pressure is more about major/career plan (e.g. premed) and individual student response to stress. |
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| Carnegie Mellon |
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+1 sort of, but also some schools are just more intense. My DS didn't like CMU for that reason, just seemed so serious, even when discussing the fun aspects of the school. Chose same major at a less intense school. |
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| Berkeley, no question. |
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| Cornell |
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*incorrect buzzer sound* |
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Columbia
Penn UC Berkeley Cornell JHU (if premed) CMU |
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| We also wanted to avoid pressure cookers, so nudged kids away from Carnegie Mellon, Chicago, Cornell, MIT, Reed, Swarthmore. Also, to a lesser extent, Penn. If they had been drawn to those schools, we would have talked more, but there were plenty of other schools that were more appealing to them anyway. |
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| Bucknell, Virginia Tech, Davidson |
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All these schools have severe grade deflation. Are they different from other schools in essence? I doubt it Ochem at Cornell is taught differently from at Dartmouth. Once they inflate the grade by a level up (B to A), all the pressure gone. |
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| OP, this is so individual. What is your kid's intended major? Some majors are going to be more pressure cooker than others just by their nature. |
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We were on a tour of Swarthmore and the student tour guide told us that they call a B at Swarthmore "an A anywhere else"
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