Anonymous
Post 05/21/2025 14:06     Subject: Pressure cooker schools
Anonymous wrote:Virginia Tech, Occidental

Not true. Maybe in engineering, though?
Anonymous
Post 05/21/2025 14:05     Subject: Pressure cooker schools
Anonymous wrote:Bucknell, Virginia Tech, Davidson

Comedian
Anonymous
Post 05/21/2025 14:04     Subject: Pressure cooker schools
Mine is engineering. Carnegie Mellon and Cornell seem to be particularly bad for what is already a stressful major. Would add Berkeley too.
Anonymous
Post 05/21/2025 13:49     Subject: Pressure cooker schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Princeton


P Y and M. Not sure about H or S.


Huh? Yale inflates grades.


How so? It is very difficult to get a top grade.


And everything else beyond grades is also a pressure cooker there.
Anonymous
Post 05/21/2025 13:48     Subject: Pressure cooker schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Princeton


P Y and M. Not sure about H or S.


Huh? Yale inflates grades.


How so? It is very difficult to get a top grade.
Anonymous
Post 05/21/2025 13:47     Subject: Pressure cooker schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We were on a tour of Swarthmore and the student tour guide told us that they call a B at Swarthmore "an A anywhere else"


So many schools say that and it's always self-important bull crap.

The average GPA of Swarthmore graduates in 2013 was 3.56. I'm sure it's only increased since then as grade inflation has become more rampant. A's are no harder to come by at Swarthmore than at Bucknell.

https://www.gradeinflation.com/Swarthmore.html


Maybe, but I think the more telling was the tour guide’s obvious stress around their grades

We visited other similar LACs and did not get that vibe
Anonymous
Post 05/21/2025 13:46     Subject: Pressure cooker schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Princeton


P Y and M. Not sure about H or S.


Huh? Yale inflates grades.
Anonymous
Post 05/21/2025 13:34     Subject: Pressure cooker schools
Anonymous wrote:Princeton


P Y and M. Not sure about H or S.
Anonymous
Post 05/21/2025 13:32     Subject: Pressure cooker schools
Virginia Tech, Occidental
Anonymous
Post 05/21/2025 13:30     Subject: Pressure cooker schools
Princeton
Anonymous
Post 05/21/2025 12:37     Subject: Pressure cooker schools
Georgia Tech
Emory
Anonymous
Post 05/21/2025 12:33     Subject: Pressure cooker schools
Anonymous wrote:Bucknell, Virginia Tech, Davidson

All of the colleges listed here surprise me.
Anonymous
Post 05/21/2025 12:29     Subject: Pressure cooker schools
Anonymous wrote:We were on a tour of Swarthmore and the student tour guide told us that they call a B at Swarthmore "an A anywhere else"


So many schools say that and it's always self-important bull crap.

The average GPA of Swarthmore graduates in 2013 was 3.56. I'm sure it's only increased since then as grade inflation has become more rampant. A's are no harder to come by at Swarthmore than at Bucknell.

https://www.gradeinflation.com/Swarthmore.html
Anonymous
Post 05/21/2025 11:58     Subject: Pressure cooker schools
Anonymous wrote:We were on a tour of Swarthmore and the student tour guide told us that they call a B at Swarthmore "an A anywhere else"


Wellesley had a similar sentiment, and I didn’t love it.
Anonymous
Post 05/21/2025 11:57     Subject: Pressure cooker schools
Cornell & Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).