Schools that are unreasonably hard

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Anonymous wrote:CMU for everything but business

Thank you. Were/are you business student at CMU?

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Amherst has grade deflation for a top school. (It gets the most favorable adjustment of GPA by Yale Law School, where the adjustment is based on a combination of the quality of the school and the grading scale.)

Where can you find GPA adjustments based on undergrad institution by Yale Law School or Harvard Law School or any other law school, for that matter?
Not sure how anyone would know that and would love to get links for those.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know of schools that are hard, just for the sake of being hard?
My friend told me that her DD left Dickinson for that reason. Her DD was not learning and not being supported. The impression was that the school is trying to improve its reputation by being tough??
Heard the same about Rice many years ago.

I think Johns Hopkins has a reputation for behing very hard.

A lot of state schools with loose admissions standards set by state law are very tough on freshmen.

JHU grad here (undergrad and grad). JHU is as hard as you make it. If you are pre med/science (want to go to MD and/or PhD) or if you want to do one of the combined undergrad and MA programs in 4 years, it’s a pressure cooker. The thing is, most enter thinking they will be one of those two. But if you want to major in something else, it’s actually probably similar to other schools with similar rankings.

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Berkeley for engineering/science.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Major was the biggest factor when I went to Hopkins.

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Anonymous wrote:Virginia Tech engineering. DD didn't go. She looked like an potential engineer as a HS senior (720 math sat, AP Physics C, Calc BC). She (we) asked a lot of questions of VT: why they flunk out so many students (who obviously were top of their class, to get into engineering at VT in the first place) Asked if there would be a way to start out, intentionally, on a course schedule that planned on 5 years to graduate in engineering (since so many student inadvertently ended up needing 5 years anyway) Their attitude, their response to questions was so harsh, bullying really. It seemed like such a fallacy that they wanted to encourage students in stem/engineering. Harsh environment for a woman especially. imo

This seems very typical of many big state engineering schools that are well regarded—VT, Berkeley etc

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Bowdoin

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Anonymous wrote:NYU, at least in arts and sciences

+1

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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.

Interesting perspective. Yet you don’t crusade against the fact that for every one piece like this (and I’ve seen exactly one in my 55 years) there are literally tens of thousands suggesting that women’s place is in the home, the greatness of America is our European (i.e. white male) heritage. I wonder why you have that selective focus? Or maybe I missed all your rants against Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, and others of their ilk?

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Anonymous wrote:Any engineering school will be challenging. Even more so if the school has a strict curve. My undergrad (which I won't name here) curved to a 2.6/4.0 GPA. There were no minus grades, so the scale was:

A= 4.0
B+ = 3.5
B = 3.0
C+ = 2.5, etc.

This put the school average GPA close to a C+ average. As were hard earned. Bs, Cs and Ds were common. We had an expression "D equals diploma" and it was true for many.

Sounds like you are describing Lehigh. The average GPA now is higher than a 3.0.

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Anonymous wrote:Bowdoin

Really? Please elaborate!

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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.

I was also impressed. My takeaway wasn't that the author thought white guys should shut up, but that they should prioritize listening when the issue is something they have little firsthand experience with. Nice piece!

Would you be equally "impressed" with a piece that says "Should black girls still be allowed to talk?"
Do you believe that black girls should "prioritize listening?"

I am going to guess that you are a white boy.