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[quote=Anonymous]I went to an engineering school on par with Rose Hulman/RPI/Clarkson.  Freshman year my calculus prof took us to the MIT website and said we were using the same textbook and following the same syllabus as the corresponding MIT course.  We did the same for Organic Chemistry and Physical Chemistry, but following the respective syllabus from those professor's prestigious alma maters.

For a lot of subjects I think there are only a couple of textbooks that are used to teach a course anywhere--there just isn't that much variation.  Everyone teaches from the same famous textbook.

For my undergrad, all our classes were curved to a 2.7 GPA, so it wear really hard to graduate with a very good GPA.  I don't know if more prestigious schools have an easier curve.

I have no idea if classes would have been harder at more prestigious schools, but I got into a top grad school for my PhD and was very well prepared.  In fact, I did better than my classmates from much more prestigious undergrads.  [/quote]

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