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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those alumni who experienced these crazy cut-throat competitive things by your peers, can you say it was mostly among.... biology majors? pre-med kids? what about the other sciences? I have a kid interested in physics, but I hate what I'm hearing here. :(

Is it worse, I guess I'm asking, in certain departments?

Can anyone with RECENT experience of the place (and 1992 doesn't count! :)) speak to whether it's still a very unhappy place? One PP said her child is having fun, going to sports events, etc. That was good to hear, but curious about others.

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I am an alumni and did not find it crazy competitive and neither did my friends.  Back in the 1990s, there was still a lot of grade deflation overall and C curves were common in certain premed prerequisites and classes like macro and micro economics — there likely has been grade inflation as there has been elsewhere.  Physics is a relatively small department and I suspect it’s pretty collaborative.

As for social life, my experience is it depended on personality.  People who lived to study continued to do so but there was plenty of social kids who continued to have a good social life in college.  Greek life was and remains popular, and people underestimate the number of student athletes.[/quote]

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