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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]William and Mary above Hopkins?  Please.🙄[/quote]

Exactly. In which world?[/quote]

At W& M it’s going to be major dependent.  Top majors are STEM and on the humanities side, IR, Econ, and Business. Don’t know about STEM, but my IR kid is 4 [b]semesters into the 5 of Econ she needs for the IR degree. Just to get the degree mind you. Not to specialize in a business, Econ, world bank area.  Plus 4 semesters of a foreign language are required (5 days a week for 2 years).  7 of those classes are pre-recs for requirements and don’t actually count towards the IR major.[/b]  So speaking for IR, it’s a really intense.  And  many/most kid also do Global studies (which is a foreign language and culture, Econ, or some other specialty.  Business and Econ?  Also very intense.  Government? Not some much and mostly for kids who couldn’t hack IR.

So year— certain majors are definitely very demanding. But, you can also find an easy path to some humanities degree, like government or sociology.

Then again, MIT has humanities majors. I agree it’s a most rigorous school in many areas of STEM. But, it's history majors? JHU is sociology? Even top schools have some paths that are less rigorous.

Any college you send you kid to, you need to look hard at their specific department. And also, what the rest of the school looks like if Plan A doesn’t pan out. [/quote]
Exactly. Rigor!!![/quote]

The question in this particular thread isn’t whether a particular school is rigorous. It’s that the list posted here is trashy even by bad clickbait standards. [/quote]

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