High schools with the most to least hw/ after school life balance

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Anonymous wrote:2-3 is normal for any high school.

the high school where you have less than 2 hours of work per night isn't a good school.

But those kids are getting into top colleges still. Look at their Instagram pages. It is quite surprising.

What schools are giving less than 2 hours a night in honors/AP classes. I'll wait.

That makes zero sense. No one is doing 2 hours per night per class plus their other classes. If they do sports that means they would be up until 1am.

No, I meant less than 2 hours a night all in. Who does that? Field?

Yes Field

Those 6 ivy kids are going to be in for a rough road.

Or maybe they’ll be perfectly prepared. I’ve heard countless people that graduated from a top/rigorous DC private say that college was easier than their HS. That should not be the case.

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Anonymous wrote:2-3 is normal for any high school.

the high school where you have less than 2 hours of work per night isn't a good school.

But those kids are getting into top colleges still. Look at their Instagram pages. It is quite surprising.

What schools are giving less than 2 hours a night in honors/AP classes. I'll wait.

That makes zero sense. No one is doing 2 hours per night per class plus their other classes. If they do sports that means they would be up until 1am.

No, I meant less than 2 hours a night all in. Who does that? Field?

Yes Field

Those 6 ivy kids are going to be in for a rough road.

Or maybe they’ll be perfectly prepared. I’ve heard countless people that graduated from a top/rigorous DC private say that college was easier than their HS. That should not be the case.

I've heard that too about top schools. But we're discussing Field, which has a very different curriculum/workload from the Big 3.

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Anonymous wrote:Here's the thing: Field kids are probably attractive to ivy AOs because they're smart, creative, and artsy. In these times of cookie cutter STEM kids that's probably an easy sell.

As for whether 60-90 minutes of homework is adequate preparation for an ivy, I'd say it depends. For STEM, I didn't think it is. Even for some of the more reading-heavy libarts majors like philosophy or Social Studies at Harvard, I doubt it. For sociology or visual arts? Yeah, why not.

The AOs have to fill those spots too.

Volume of homework is a crappy measure of preparation. Quality is what matters.

Read the Critique of Pure Reason in the next n days and be prepared to discuss in class. No way you're up to that task unless you've been prepared for both volume and quantity.

Or you've learned how to, you know, NOT read the whole thing and still be prepared to discuss it in class. This is most of what I learned from my freshman year of college - how to skim, read selections, etc. when the reading assigned was just unrealistic. And I wasn't alone - it's what most of my peers at our Ivy would say they learned, too. High school taught us to do everything...college taught us how to figure out what was actually needed to be successful and do just that.

We learned these skills as college freshmen. My kid at a 3-hours-of-homework-a-night private is learning them as a high school freshman.