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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Lower-ranked colleges often have more formal homework and more graded assignments, and more rigorous grading. Higher-end colleges are typically easier and impose less busy-work. But for engineering and hard-science, all bets are off and it's tough anywhere decent. [/quote]

I don't think this is necessarily true at all.  I do think there is some truth that lower ranked universities in certain subjects may assign more homework and grade it more carefully, but only because they expect a lower level of independence from the students.  At my SLAC, I had a couple of classes where homework was optional--we were assigned it for practice, but it was our responsibility to learn the material.  I also had several classes that didn't assign homework, but had extremely difficult exams, and if I didn't put the work into it, then failing was the consequence.  At places with a less independent and motivated student body, sometimes you need to collect and grade homework to force kids to study/practice.[/quote]

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