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Anonymous wrote:W&L is very easy compared to ivies, work load wise. The GPA average is similar but the ivy kid has a lot more reading and writing and the math classes more rigorous. Close relatives at each, both not in stem majors, quite different experiences.

Disagree. DD is a sophomore business major and has a very heavy workload with a lot of writing. It’s hard to get an A. Each class is 20 kids or less and they only give out a few A’s.

Np, but I also have heard it’s easy from dd’s friends that attend. Current sophomores.

Yes W&L is easy, half of most classes are A and A-, and C is almost never given. The hours needed to get A- is not bad at all. There is so much time for greek life and parties. W&M is more challenging by a lot

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Anonymous wrote:Opposite is WashU, easiest to get into hardest to graduate from.

Graduated from WashU and majored in a hard science. Don't think it was as difficult as friends' experiences at Berkeley or CMU. Wouldn't say there was grade deflation either. Upper level classes were pretty generous with grades

Berkeley is no joke. Their exams are public, and some of the hardest given to undergraduates.

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Anonymous wrote:Vandy has gotten ridiculously hard.

This isn’t true, two family members recently attended and found it significantly easier than their private high school.

Let me guess, they were HOD majors or in Peabody?

Everyone else at Vandy thinks it's difficult AF. Currently. Talk to some engineering or econ majors. Or any of the premed, or philosophy majors. Even Blair is stressful these days

No regular arts and science, with a good amount of science and Econ classes. Everyone says Vandy is relatively easy except you.

Adding maybe the test optional kids are struggling. Vandy certainly admits a lot of them.

My kid had a 36 ACT and is struggling in his T50 university as a humanities/social science major (well, struggling is a stretch but he has to work very hard for his mix of As and Bs, which puts his gpa much lower than the 3.9 everyone else seems to have nowadays- see the other thread on this).

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Anonymous wrote:Opposite is WashU, easiest to get into hardest to graduate from.

Easier for private T25s, overall is Umich.

+1 significant difference between private and public selectivity in the t25

Anonymous wrote:Opposite is WashU, easiest to get into hardest to graduate from.

Easier for private T25s, overall is Umich.

Anonymous wrote:Opposite is WashU, easiest to get into hardest to graduate from.

that's what i hear too.

Anonymous wrote:Opposite is WashU, easiest to get into hardest to graduate from.

Graduated from WashU and majored in a hard science. Don't think it was as difficult as friends' experiences at Berkeley or CMU. Wouldn't say there was grade deflation either. Upper level classes were pretty generous with grades

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vandy has gotten ridiculously hard.

This isn’t true, two family members recently attended and found it significantly easier than their private high school.

Let me guess, they were HOD majors or in Peabody?

Everyone else at Vandy thinks it's difficult AF. Currently. Talk to some engineering or econ majors. Or any of the premed, or philosophy majors. Even Blair is stressful these days

No regular arts and science, with a good amount of science and Econ classes. Everyone says Vandy is relatively easy except you.

Adding maybe the test optional kids are struggling. Vandy certainly admits a lot of them.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vandy has gotten ridiculously hard.

This isn’t true, two family members recently attended and found it significantly easier than their private high school.

Let me guess, they were HOD majors or in Peabody?

Everyone else at Vandy thinks it's difficult AF. Currently. Talk to some engineering or econ majors. Or any of the premed, or philosophy majors. Even Blair is stressful these days

No regular arts and science, with a good amount of science and Econ classes. Everyone says Vandy is relatively easy except you.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vandy has gotten ridiculously hard.

This isn’t true, two family members recently attended and found it significantly easier than their private high school.

Let me guess, they were HOD majors or in Peabody?

Everyone else at Vandy thinks it's difficult AF. Currently. Talk to some engineering or econ majors. Or any of the premed, or philosophy majors. Even Blair is stressful these days

Anonymous wrote:in terms of grade inflation, hours of homework, competition amongst kids, etc

To me, these are different things. You can have two places where students spend the same amount of time on homework, but at one school there's a highly competitive vibe, while at the other it's a highly collaborative vibe.

Opposite is WashU, easiest to get into hardest to graduate from.

Anonymous wrote:in terms of grade inflation, hours of homework, competition amongst kids, etc

I’ll go first - Vandy, Brown, Bowdoin, W&L

Chicago, CMU, Hopkins.
HAHAHAHHAHAHA

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Anonymous wrote:W&L is very easy compared to ivies, work load wise. The GPA average is similar but the ivy kid has a lot more reading and writing and the math classes more rigorous. Close relatives at each, both not in stem majors, quite different experiences.

Disagree. DD is a sophomore business major and has a very heavy workload with a lot of writing. It’s hard to get an A. Each class is 20 kids or less and they only give out a few A’s.

Np, but I also have heard it’s easy from dd’s friends that attend. Current sophomores.

Anonymous wrote:Vandy has gotten ridiculously hard.

This isn’t true, two family members recently attended and found it significantly easier than their private high school.