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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Four classes, none of which  are STEM, are typically not overwhelming.  My guess is that your dd’s high school was not particularly rigorous and it will take her a a semester or two to catch up,  just be patient and support her, she’ll figure it out.[/quote]

says someone who was not a liberal arts major. My DS takes four classes currently, politics and history, and it's a TON of reading. Literally too much reading. i think he told me he had to read hundreds of pages per day. He got good at being able to skim and only read the parts that he'll need for any upcoming essay or test. Otherwise, there was simply NO way he could read all of that material. So yes, its common. Also common is studying on the weekends.That is par for the course in college. My DS also took all those Ap classes you mention, got 4s and 5s and never broke a sweat, barely studied and got a 4.6 GPA from a competitive HS. So yeah college is another level, as it should be.[/quote]

Did she not read hundreds of pages in high school?  
I hate to interject this yet again (although I'm a different poster) but my Big3 kids honestly did.  There was so much assigned reading.  Commonly 10-12 books per year in English class alone. Between that and history both my kids would spend 1-2 hours per night in high school just reading text. [/quote]

Unrelated to wear anyone went to high school, but an English class at a SLAC will be more like 10-12 books per semester. so,if you are taking 2-3 of them, it can be a lot of reading. Ideally students figure out how to mix their classes so that they aren’t taking 4-5 resding/writing intensive courses each semester.

My DCs are humanities majors but have take a reasonable number of STEM classes. Those with labs are certainly time consuming in terms of class time and require study, but not as time consuming as English/sociology/history classes. But they aren’t taking the super tough chem courses to be fair![/quote]

A STEM class is MUCH more time consuming than English/sociology/history, get outta here with that nonsense.[/quote]

This. Advanced STEM classes would have 10 page super hard problem sets due every week. They would take me literally 48 h of actual work time to complete - for one class. And I also had a job unlike all of your lazy ass rich kids[/quote]

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