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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Huh?  My college, MIT, wasn't easy.[/quote]

Engineering and math isn’t easy at any decent school. But even at top schools, some majors are hella easy (eg psychology or gender studies at an ivy)[/quote]

90% of most college degrees is just showing up and doing the work of whatever quality.  There are a couple of "weed out" classes, like stats, that you may need to take twice and some difficult majors that students give up on after a semester (engineering and nursing, for example,  though even there students mostly switch because they don't like the material not because they can't, with more grit than smarts or preparation, do it well enough to get a c).[/quote]

I guess I went to a 10% school because it really was not like that (liberal arts, no ivy). But, I have heard this said. I do think that BASIS students won't be dropping out because they cannot handle the work itself. They would be dropping out because they're unhappy, or broke, and that could mean a lot of different causes. I wonder if overworked in high school can mean they need a break to figure out why they are even doing what they're doing, and where they want their lives to go. This is just a guess of course. You can easily find out by asking your daughter....[/quote]

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