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Reply to "Would you say that students at CMU, JHU, Northwestern, Duke, or UChicago tend to be more down-to-earth and hardworking?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m hoping to send my kid to a pragmatic school with equally ambitious peers — a place where students work hard and play hard (not just coast on grade inflation). Would you say these schools fit that kind of profile better? [/quote] Over 30% of Duke’s class has a 3.9+. Over 50% have 3.8+. Engineering is only slightly lower. They work hard but there is definitely inflation. They are ambitious, intense and also have time for fun. Northwestern is more academically intense with only slightly lower gpa, still inflated. CMU is far more intense and the lowest grades of the 3. Duke and Northwestern overlap with ivies as far as many premed/finance/engineering/prelaw, intensity and over-involvement outside of classroom and lots of time in the library/less time socializing than 25 yrs ago. They are not at all more “work hard play hard” than most ivies, and GPA is on the high end of ivies, less than all but the highly inflated Brown (40% 4.0) [/quote]
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