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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]American colleges are not known to be academically demanding until graduate level.[/quote]

This is an utter and complete lie that I have heard perpetuated a few times. They are definitely more rigorous compared to european universities, where you usually do not have homeworks and midterms only just a final, which by the way you can retake to improve your grade in many cases. Also at most UK universities first-year grades dont count.

Now if you compare US to Asian universities, yes they probably are less demanding.  [/quote]

hahahaha - by the final is 100000 harder than a final at US college. midterms and homeworks make studying easier not harder.

and yes you can repeat je final but you can fail a whole year if you don't pass it in time. Repeating finals is extremely risky and time consuming and very few people do it to improve the grade (you can also lower your grade - there is no guarantee your grade will go up or even that you will pass it the second time...)[/quote]

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