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[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]

I don't know if you are real or not, but I was visiting the art museum at Harvard and overheard an undergrad saying the classes were easy. Was she telling the truth? Bragging? I have no idea. I am merely repeating what she was discussing loudly in the art gallery.

Her conversation did make me wonder. A friend taught at Harvard and said all of her students fit into four categories--legacy, the best at something, first gen, or child of staff.

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