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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is meant by a "heavy workload?"  I've seen that term used often to describe Univ of Chicago's academic environment, but is it really that much heavier than any of the other top schools such as the Ivies?  [/quote]

Quarter system makes it look/feel more grueling than H and P (where I went) but there also seems to be MUCH less reading.  Don’t know if this is generational. My perception is partially an artifact of humanities/soc sci parents vs STEM kid, but DC’s non-STEM classes had much less reading per week than I was used to.[/quote]

It's really hard to compare the experiences across universities because no one person is ever simultaneously taking classes at two places at once.

That being said. My husband is a social science prof at U of C and so I have fairly intimate knowledge of what is assigned/returned to him. And, my GOD the papers. It's not so much the number (usually, that is around 1 big paper with a few smaller) but it's the quality of the papers he gets back from students. These are easily the kinds of papers I would have written in graduate school -- 50+ pages long, original research, detailed citation. One person requested archival data from another country and translated it himself.

I am less familiar with the amount of reading aside from what is assigned for the freshman class that all U of C profs have to occasionally teach (the "core") which seems to be pretty heavy, but you can probably find that info online.

So: busy work? Not really. But, to be a "top" student, you need to do work that I would not typically expect a college sophomore/junior to do, or really any college student outside of their senior thesis project. [/quote]

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