Pressure cooker schools

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Cornell & Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).

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Anonymous wrote: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"

Wellesley had a similar sentiment, and I didn’t love it.

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Anonymous wrote: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"

So many schools say that and it's always self-important bull crap.

The average GPA of Swarthmore graduates in 2013 was 3.56. I'm sure it's only increased since then as grade inflation has become more rampant. A's are no harder to come by at Swarthmore than at Bucknell.

https://www.gradeinflation.com/Swarthmore.html

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Anonymous wrote:Bucknell, Virginia Tech, Davidson

All of the colleges listed here surprise me.

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Georgia Tech
Emory

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Princeton

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Virginia Tech, Occidental

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Anonymous wrote:Princeton

P Y and M. Not sure about H or S.

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Anonymous wrote:Princeton

P Y and M. Not sure about H or S.

Huh? Yale inflates grades.

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Anonymous wrote: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"

So many schools say that and it's always self-important bull crap.

The average GPA of Swarthmore graduates in 2013 was 3.56. I'm sure it's only increased since then as grade inflation has become more rampant. A's are no harder to come by at Swarthmore than at Bucknell.

https://www.gradeinflation.com/Swarthmore.html

Maybe, but I think the more telling was the tour guide’s obvious stress around their grades

We visited other similar LACs and did not get that vibe

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Anonymous wrote:Princeton

P Y and M. Not sure about H or S.

Huh? Yale inflates grades.

How so? It is very difficult to get a top grade.

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Anonymous wrote:Princeton

P Y and M. Not sure about H or S.

Huh? Yale inflates grades.

How so? It is very difficult to get a top grade.

And everything else beyond grades is also a pressure cooker there.

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Mine is engineering. Carnegie Mellon and Cornell seem to be particularly bad for what is already a stressful major. Would add Berkeley too.

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Anonymous wrote:Bucknell, Virginia Tech, Davidson

Comedian

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Anonymous wrote:Virginia Tech, Occidental

Not true. Maybe in engineering, though?