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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Recently heard from a friend their sophomore DC at Chicago finds the work more manageable than feared (was expecting where fun goes to die), and read on here schools on the title no longer have grade deflation. Is this true? College counselors and private consultants (the 2 we have talked to so small sample size) seem to still think these are grind schools where too many students graduate with low GPAs.

Anyone with with DCs at these schools now with real-life recent experience and not just recycling hearsays? [/quote]

Every one of them has a median Gpa of 3.65 -3.8, similar to the rest of the ivies and T10 besides Harvard and Duke which inflate (3.9,3,85 median). All of these schools require a lot of work to get above the median, with certain concentrations/majors requiring many more hours than others. That is life. It hardly makes the named universities any grindier than the rest of their peer schools. [/quote]

How would you know if you didn’t attend every one of these schools?  Speculation.  Hearsay.

Grade inflation or not.  A kid at one of the named schools still needs to put in a lot more effort to get the same gpa.  [/quote][/quote]

A kid at one of those schools needs to put in more effort than one at UVA but a kid at those schools does not have to put in more effort than other ivies or MIT or stanford. The peer groups are the same as far as talent and competition to be able to be top half. One could argue MIT is a notch harder than any of them. [/quote]

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