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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DS got in these two schools and we are debating too. DS has lot of hobbies and spend about 75% of his energy on school work (All As, not show off). I feel he has great potential and hasn't tried his best. If we choose CMU, he has to work hard in order to keep up with other intelligent and hard working kids.[b] [b]If in UVA, he could just have another 4 years' easy life without pushing up his limit. [/b]Does my thought make sense?[/quote]

That is a weird assumption. No one likes that parent who thinks their kid’s shit doesn’t stink. Stop it.[/quote][/b]

+1  I have a child at UVA.  He works like a demon.  All the time.  And now, at home, all the time.  He's not in a frat.  He's not a partier.  He has  a wonderful set of friends and had a great time/   He has had stellar academic experiences and relations with professors and the result of those experiences let to internships and letters of recommendation that got him into the top university of the world for grad work.  College is what you make of it. You can party anywhere.[/quote]
This can certainly be true but its also true that compared to UVA, CMU can be far more challenging and time-consuming academically. There's a set of universities that are generally considered to be very tough, and engineering at CMU, Cornell, MIT, Berkeley tend to fall into that. For example, CMU CS/Engineering is probably more challenging than Harvard's, so to say UVA will be comparatively easier life than CMU is not a knock on UVA.[/quote]
Sure, but PP said that UVA would be a “breeze” for her kid and he would just have easy life and he would be so far ahead of the other kids that he’d have no one to keep up with or compete with. I get that schools can have different levels of rigor and am not denying that, but that kind of comment just makes you seem extremely obnoxious and adds nothing to the conversation. [/quote]
But that depends on the student and the major. For many students, a school like UVA would indeed be a breeze. This is because the programs may not be very rigorous in certain subjects and because the curve is steeper as the academic floor (the academically worst-performing student) is lower.[/quote]

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