<p>I really loved Holy Cross. I got accepted and was really happy. I heard something that made me a little reluctant to attend. I heard that the academics at Holy Cross are really hard and time consuming. I heard they make you work a ridiculous amount.
I dont want to be one of those college students who has to work all the time. Do you guys think that Holy Cross is like that? Any insight?</p>
<p>I only know what my son and I heard at our visit there. According to the student giving the tour, HC has a reputation second only to Harvard in the amount of time spent doing school work. The good news is that classes are four credits each, so you only have to take four per semester.</p>
<p>My son take all IB courses and he claims that IB really stands for "I B doin' six hours of homework a night," so he could probably handle it. If you've had a heavy course load, such as the IB program or lots of AP classes, I would say you'd be able to handle it. Remember, they have a 95% retention rate, so the students must really love it or else they wouldn't stay.</p>
<p>I'm a freshman and HC right now, and the workload is really not that bad. I'd take what the "experts" say about any school's workload with a grain of salt, actually, unless you're comparing Harvard with SuchandSuch Community College because it depends on what you're taking and who's teaching it. Some profs here are incapable of giving a bad grade and others will really push you. But most people I know don't really have much of a problem in terms of getting their work done and getting it done well.</p>
<p>If you're pre-med then, yes, you'll probably have a lot of work all the time. But that's pretty much what you'll get at any school I think. I mean, Organic Chemistry at UMass isn't going to be any easier than it is here.</p>
<p>But yeah...I don't really know why HC is supposed to be 2nd to Harvard in amount of work. Yes, people work hard here, but so do most college students in general...</p>