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[quote=Anonymous]DD went to a large public "W" school and is at a top 20 (according to USNWR) where the majority of kids major in STEM/engineering areas.  In her freshman year she has found the science classes extremely challenging, the math classes about the same, and she has breezed through the humanities with relatively little effort compared to HS.  We were somewhat surprised by her humanities experience because she's more STEM oriented.  You always read on here about how much better prepared private school students are in English and writing, and there are a lot of private school kids there.  Maybe it's the case that some of her college classmates focused on STEM to the detriment of other subjects in HS?

Overall, she's finding college much more enjoyable than HS.  She was on the typical 10-12 AP treadmill in HS, and even though she's had to work incredibly hard to get good grades in some of the college science classes, she no longer feels like she's doing the work just to check boxes.[/quote]

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