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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child has had the same freshman year experience at an Ivy (not Columbia so I can't speak to it's rigor). Classes are ridiculously easy even as a STEM major and many peers are not doing well in them (grades on tests as low as in the teens). All together a big step down in rigor and peer group from child's private high school.  They got a job for 15-20 hours a week to fill the time.

I have no doubt that there are Ivies and other colleges that are still rigorous but many are not. I am not posting this to be a jerk or a snob at all but because it's been really eye opening. [/quote]
It might be interesting to consider this through a site that names colleges where student responses indicate they “study the most”:

Colleges Where Students Study the Most | The Princeton Review https://share.google/Zfwlzd1bmThPGaDaq (this is not a safe link, do not click it)

Tech-oriented schools . . . Caltech, Mudd, Olin, Rose-Hulman, MIT, Webb, Rice . . . appear liberally, along with a cluster of NESCACs . . . Williams, Colby, Bowdoin, Amherst, Hamilton. One Ivy, Princeton, does appear, as does a Sister, Wellesley.

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[b]There's nothing interesting about this.[/b] It's survey responses and I'm not convinced a Colby Anthropology major is studying [more] than a Yale or Columbia anthropology major.[/quote]
It's possible that you don't find formalized information in general to be interesting. [/quote]

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