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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Johns Hopkins, Swarthmore, Emory, Chicago, Case, Cornell, Columbia, Stanford, Berkeley, Penn. This list may be outdated. I hear that Northwestern, Duke and maybe Vanderbilt have joined their ranks in terms of intensity. [/quote]

Northwestern is more intense than Duke. Also more intense than Vanderbilt. But, much depends upon one's major. Georgia Tech engineering is intense, but other majors less intense (industrial mgmt. is an example of a less intense major).

I have heard differently about UC-Berkeley & Stanford. Just like Cornell, the level of intensity depends upon one's major.[/quote]

My kid is a freshman at NU - they go out only 3 nights a week.
It’s a mix of kids from NYC, CT, LA, NJ, MA, DC, Chicago. Lots of private school kids.
Very normal set of kids.
Lots of Econ majors. A few premed. Those kids seem more stressed.
[b]All the humanities kids seem more chill. [/b]Sunbathing at beach, Pilates classes at SPAC, and 3 hrs in library.
Let’s see how it is in 4 months

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This tracks with my STEM freshman at Columbia. But DC is still able to go out a few times a week and is involved in EC's.  Seems to me to be two key reasons: 1) the STEM classes all grade on a strict curve, they are trying to weed people out before they declare majors 2) the STEM majors need to complete foundational year long courses in freshman year to get through prerequisites for classes as upperclassmen, the humanities majors don't have similar prerequisites so those freshmen are less likely to be in truly hard classes yet.[/quote]

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