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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“Our students find college not as challenging,” says Temba Maqubela, dean of faculty and assistant head for academics at Phillips Academy, the boarding school in Andover, Mass. Former students have written to him expressing frustration with college courses that are too basic. (Consider this collegiate-sounding offering from Andover’s English department: “Feasts and Fools: The Topos of the Festive Social Gathering.”) Andover alumni tell John Rogers, dean of studies, that college “is not as difficult as their experience here,” he says.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/education/edlife/07prepared.html?pagewanted=all%20%3Chttp://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/education/edlife/07prepared.html?pagewanted=all%3E&_r=0[/quote]

Why drag up this 2007 article?

This was true back in the 1990's. Grads of top boarding schools did not break a sweat in first year intro classes even at Princeton. After these classes, however, they could take anything up to graduate level classes if they needed the challenge.  [/quote]

I think this is more true today compared to 7 years ago. The educational inequality is getting worse not better with kids at the top even more prepared for colleges than the average high school kids. Theses kids will than take up most of the grad/professional school spaces. [/quote]

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