Schools that are unreasonably hard

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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)

What a crock of absolute malarkey. The average graduate of Sidwell or NCS/STA isn't even going to be accepted by Chicago, and the average test scores at the Chicago are much higher than the average scores at these high schools. If they're "so hard," all that means is that the students are being loaded down with busy work, not academically challenging work that the typical Chicago student couldn't knock out of the park.

Lol NCS sent about 5 girls there this year alone. It’s the perfect place for the girl who loves the NCS grind.

Actually, 8 girls from the class of 2021 - which is more than 10% of the class.

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Chicago, CMU, Hopkins. Egg programs pretty much anywhere.

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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)

What a crock of absolute malarkey. The average graduate of Sidwell or NCS/STA isn't even going to be accepted by Chicago, and the average test scores at the Chicago are much higher than the average scores at these high schools. If they're "so hard," all that means is that the students are being loaded down with busy work, not academically challenging work that the typical Chicago student couldn't knock out of the park.

Lol NCS sent about 5 girls there this year alone. It’s the perfect place for the girl who loves the NCS grind.

Actually, 8 girls from the class of 2021 - which is more than 10% of the class.

And all 8 are Ivy League rejects.

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My kid was a TJ Grad. Gerald consensus was the colleges that they consistently found miserable (and TJ grads have a high tolerance for miserable) were Chicago, MIT, JHU and CMU. Goes with saying most were in Engineering, CS or some other hardcore STEM subject.

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Actually, I’ve read that Dickinson provides an extremely nurturing environment. This is based on Niche and College Confidential reviews.

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Anonymous wrote:Anecdotally from friends: CMU, UChicago, JHU, Swarthmore, Princeton (allegedly due to grade deflation), Vanderbilt (niece tried to be pre-med), and my youngest niece complains about Rhodes College.

Taught at one, got my PhD at another, my kid did undergrad at a 3rd. None were unreasonably hard. 2/3 were more academically-focussed than Harvard (where I was an undergrad). Best classes at all 4 had similar workloads/standards.

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Harvey Mudd belongs on this list.

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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.

You definitely had an easy major then like Communications or History. Because I had upper level accounting classes that NO ONE in the class got an A and a hand full failed. It is work forest

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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.

You definitely had an easy major then like Communications or History. Because I had upper level accounting classes that NO ONE in the class got an A and a hand full failed. It is work forest

didn't I already say accounting was hard? It was in my original post

I wasn't a history or communications major (I took several COMM classes though and enjoyed them), but thanks for acting like anything non STEM based is worthless.

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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.

I am sorry you had this experience. I too went UVA CS back in the day and while Thermo and Circuits weren't "hard" for me in the sense of intellectual stimulation and challenge, the grading was not objective. Yes the curve was at a C, even if the mean was 94% or 96%. It was "hard" in terms of the vicious sabotage from competing classmates and demoralizing staff. I do use circuits for IOT and DSP, and Thermo (not UVa's class) knowledge helps me with troubleshooting and tutoring my cousins in physics. I completely agree with this poster to avoid UVA Eng and just do MIT's OCW courseware/youtube/skillsoft/etc and grade yourself.

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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/

The article is entirely comprised of base, vulgar, unashamed, vile racism masquerading as advocacy.

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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/

The article is entirely comprised of base, vulgar, unashamed, vile racism masquerading as advocacy.

??? Did not see this at all. Did you read it? How was it vulgar? Racist? Bizarre.

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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)

What a crock of absolute malarkey. The average graduate of Sidwell or NCS/STA isn't even going to be accepted by Chicago, and the average test scores at the Chicago are much higher than the average scores at these high schools. If they're "so hard," all that means is that the students are being loaded down with busy work, not academically challenging work that the typical Chicago student couldn't knock out of the park.

Why the protective butt hurt? Your vocab, metaphors and syntax tells us you're not Gen Z -- so you're an older Chicago graduate from ... a public high school? A non-elite private high school? Why so cantankerous?

Every year Sidwell sends 7-10 kids to UChicago, including this class of 2022. Sidwell doesn't post "average test scores" of its students so you're just making up data today. That said, the couple of kids I know personally from Sidwell '22 exceed these metrics of current Chicago freshman: https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/apply/class-2025-profile

I hope your day gets better.

You sound like Kelly Ann Conway on the talk shows dodging and weaving to avoid answering the actual question asked.

No one said that there aren't students from Sidwell with SAT scores exceeding Chicago's metrics. What was said was that on average Chicago's scores are higher. And that's an absolute fact.

The average SAT score at Chicago is a 1530, which is higher than TJ -- whose average SAT score is the highest in the region. If you think Sidwell and NCS/STA has higher average SAT scores than TJ's you're delusional.

Can you show us a source provided by UChicago demonstrating that the mean SAT is 1530? Also the current SAT averages for TJ and Sidwell, 2022? Thank you so much

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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.

Disagree, especially given that the author attended one the most elite, expensive high schools in the US for k-12 then a highly selective college.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/leda-fisher-3b6b3017a/

It's full of ad hominem attacks, generalizations, stereotypes and mocking. Can anyone picture an essay in actual print that criticizes the discussion style of those "Wangs, Xius and Lins" ? Or "Mohammeds Abduls and Farrouks"? How long would a writer keep their job if they said they were sick of listening to the opinions "Shantays, Tiaras and Mo'niques" ? I

t's just a lazy, mean style. I "get" the oppression imbalance and why one demographic gets an endless, never-ending free pass to take pot shots at their classmates. That is not actually good writing.

You again? I really don't think you read (or comprehended) the article. These extrapolations just don't fit the circumstance or the nuance of the writing.

That was my first post. There is no nuance in that essay. At all. I happen to agree with what I think must be her larger point, but it's a shoddy piece of prose.

It's a lazy style of opinion writing so common in the Twitter generation

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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)

What a crock of absolute malarkey. The average graduate of Sidwell or NCS/STA isn't even going to be accepted by Chicago, and the average test scores at the Chicago are much higher than the average scores at these high schools. If they're "so hard," all that means is that the students are being loaded down with busy work, not academically challenging work that the typical Chicago student couldn't knock out of the park.

I assumed PP meant the kids who went to Sidwell or NCS/STA and THEN ATTEND Chicago. These are smart kids.