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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The reality are all the Ivy's ae much easier once you get there than even flagship state schools.

Less classes, less expectation, no real grading, lots of fluff classes.

Ivy students take 10 less classes than students are flagship universities add in some APs and they are taking 15 less classes. [/quote]You can graduate a state school in three years with AP credit, but not an Ivy [/quote]

Yes. They don’t take any high school credits.

You need 4 years of college courses.[/quote]

Also- credits are misleading at Ivies. I questioned the 4 courses my kid was signed up for- but 3 had additional 1 hour or 2 hour required seminars as part of the course (class time)—so there’s way more built into a course credit.[/quote]

+1 my kid’s private HS had a ridiculous amount of reading. Our attic is filled to the brim with the books both my kids had to read in high school…

At the Ivy- he says the required reading for one week is insane even compared to that very rigorous environment he came from.

I see it ver much like good public vs good private HS—even in the best school districts it’s just not comparable. No re-takes, no standard based learning, accountability, required AP exams, essays written in class, a huge amount of reading…it’s different. You would not see it unless you have had kids in both.[/quote]

I love that parents like you respond with first hand knowledge rather than the ones who spout off random opinions, but it would be even more useful if you actually named the college as well as the major, or at least whether your kid is in humanities or sciences/engineering.[/quote]

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