Schools that are unreasonably hard

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Who finds their school hard? Probably public school kids who have only experienced grade inflation their entire lives.

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My son attended one of the private schools in DC few years ago, now he is at u Chicago and he said the courses are more manageable than his high school and not that bad and he goes a lot to downtown Chicago on weekends for fun and some sport events.
Great city !!

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Anonymous wrote:Who finds their school hard? Probably public school kids who have only experienced grade inflation their entire lives.

That was not my children’s experience. Both went to school known for hard grading and both found that they were extremely well prepared, especially in math and science.


This is old, but both my children liked to tout that they were at one of the ‘top ten’ hardest grading schools.
https://www.businessinsider.com/colleges-with-the-hardest-working-students-2015-12

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There may be something to the rigorous vs non rigorous hs theory. I didn’t find my college classes crazy hard, but I also went to a tough HS and took a challenging workload.

I think major also plays a role.

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Anonymous wrote:My son attended one of the private schools in DC few years ago, now he is at u Chicago and he said the courses are more manageable than his high school and not that bad and he goes a lot to downtown Chicago on weekends for fun and some sport events.
Great city !!

yes, Chicago is generally easier than high school for kids after Sidwell or NCS/STA. These high schools are sweatshops (and I'm not saying this is a good thing--as a parent I think it's overkill)

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Boston University - serious grade deflation but students only take 4 classes a semester

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Schools on the quarter system, especially for STEM subjects. Most quarter systems are 10 weeks. WPI is notoriously harder since they have 7-week terms. Taking all of Calc IV in 7 weeks is no joke. All of their classes are 4 days plus a day for labs. Intense.

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Anonymous wrote:Boston University - serious grade deflation but students only take 4 classes a semester

I thought that was the norm?

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Anonymous wrote:The reputation for Wake forest is that it’s relatively easy to get in compared to its peers but once in, too much work.

funny - I actually found it opposite when I was there. That said, a lot of my friends were always like "it is SO hard" and it was called Work Forest.

I didn't find it overly challenging, but I also wasn't majoring in a particularly difficult subject. There were a TON of kids who were pre-med, so there were definitely weed-out courses for that. And I know accounting was also difficult.

I was the annoying person writing term papers the night before they were due and getting good grades. I also didn't kill myself because I wasn't planning on trying for a competitive grad school. I got my degree with honors in the end.

My friends at WF find the Business school to be outrageously hard. Lot's of weed out classes. Same with and Science major. I would imagine any Communications or English or International relations major finds it easy like you.

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Wellelsey is the most grade deflated of the top LACs, to the point that their students cross register at MIT to increase their GPAs

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When I was studying CS at UVA I thought the program was unnecessarily hard. The 30 hours in CS was fine. Back then I also had to take another 30 hours in Applied Math. That was also fine. The thing that got me was the 60 hours in general engineering like Thermo and circuits that I didn't care about. I think there were 12 hours of electives on top of this. Most semesters were around 18 hours. This was a long time ago and I hope it isn't like this today. However, I would probably avoid any CS program that requires 60+ hours of engineering for the sake of engineering.

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Anonymous wrote:When I was studying CS at UVA I thought the program was unnecessarily hard. The 30 hours in CS was fine. Back then I also had to take another 30 hours in Applied Math. That was also fine. The thing that got me was the 60 hours in general engineering like Thermo and circuits that I didn't care about. I think there were 12 hours of electives on top of this. Most semesters were around 18 hours. This was a long time ago and I hope it isn't like this today. However, I would probably avoid any CS program that requires 60+ hours of engineering for the sake of engineering.

Oh also they graded on a curve back then so the median was a C.

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Anonymous wrote:There is absolutely no reason anyone should ever go to Dickenson. Ever.
https://thedickinsonian.com/opinion/2019/02/07/should-white-boys-still-be-allowed-to-talk/

TBH, this is very well written. Impressive, even if I disagree with the argument.

It's disgusting. Anyone who has graduated from Dickenson should hang their heads in shame.

Because one student wrote an opinion piece?

I enjoyed it. And it was written before the overturning Roe fiasco. I would live to see an update written after that.

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Anonymous wrote:The reputation for Wake forest is that it’s relatively easy to get in compared to its peers but once in, too much work.

funny - I actually found it opposite when I was there. That said, a lot of my friends were always like "it is SO hard" and it was called Work Forest.

I didn't find it overly challenging, but I also wasn't majoring in a particularly difficult subject. There were a TON of kids who were pre-med, so there were definitely weed-out courses for that. And I know accounting was also difficult.

I was the annoying person writing term papers the night before they were due and getting good grades. I also didn't kill myself because I wasn't planning on trying for a competitive grad school. I got my degree with honors in the end.

My friends at WF find the Business school to be outrageously hard. Lot's of weed out classes. Same with and Science major. I would imagine any Communications or English or International relations major finds it easy like you.

I did say it was likely major specific. If I had wanted to push myself harder, I could have double majored, but there wasn't any reason to do so. They didn't allow double minor, or I could have done that as well.

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Cornell engineering is hard. Ton of work to get a B average.