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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child goes to one of [b]MIT/Uchicago/Hopkins/Northwestern[/b]

(no point in saying which) and works so hard for As. The school uses various methods to cap the number of “top achievers,” and she was specifically told in a class this year that typically only 5% of the students leave with an A. Some people here will call them grinder/striver schools, which is just another way of saying that the non-rich, non-legacy riffraff should stay submissive and happy with their lot. But these schools and a few others seem to be so far above Harvard’s academic standards at the moment. Between the lax undergrad standards and the appalling number of Harvard and Yale Law grads who seem to have never read the Constitution, I think a drop in many Ivy League schools’ rankings and popular perception is just a matter of time.

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I had two kids - Yale and Northwestern. And Northwestern kid would say it was far easier. Yale was not a cake walk.

And MIT has one of the lowest failure rates of any university. My nephew was there. Hard, sure. But pass/fail at the beginning, which helps. Maybe all colleges should do that?

You can edit this to MIT and JHU. But Chicago and Northwestern? In 2025?
I think you have to also acknowledge that most kids at most colleges can choose an easier or harder path by looking up the professors ahead of time. [/quote][/quote]

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