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[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]

Can anyone give a good explanation of the point of just hundreds maybe thousands of pages of reading each week?

Is this preparation for academia?  Is the real point to learn how to ignore 90% of it and figure out the 10%.

These schools sound pretty miserable.  I now appreciate the business world more and more where even Jeff Bezos won’t allow you to exceed 6 pages when you pitch a multi-billion idea.[/quote]

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