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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I know tons of people who didn’t make it.[/quote]
DP, also Princeton alum. I know many who didn’t make it as well.

The shame is at a less rigorous school they probably would have been fine. The rigor is intense. [/quote]

According to studies, the failure rate for organic chemistry classes nationwide is roughly 25-50%.  Organic chemistry is considered a difficult class at, among other schools, Williams:  see https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php/Hard_classes#Organic_Chemistry

I think some at Ivies expect to sail through all their courses and treat any setbacks as unfair, but the point of going to an Ivy shouldn't be to be completely insulated from the challenges that students face at other universities.  As a general matter, grade inflation is higher at Ivies than at many other schools.

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Thus is just incorrect, Princeton stem doesn’t have the grade inflation you’ll find at Harvard or Yale.  My child is pre med and currently taking orgo at a non-Ivy.  Yes, there are kids not passing the course but most kids are scoring in the 70s and above. Her friends at Princeton reported a class average of 30 something in a regular chem class test this fall, and lower than that for Calc 1.  It’s several orders of magnitude more difficult grading than STEM at peer schools.[/quote]

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