<p>1) Only four or five classes instead of 8. You're mind isn't as cluttered with 87 or 8 different subjects.</p>
<p>2) AP and honors classes are tough...I'd say some of my AP classes in HS were comparble---if not harder---than a lot of classes in college. </p>
<p>3) More time to do your work, less time in class. I only have about 2 or 3 hours in class on any given day. That gives me 12 or more hours to do work</p>
<p>4) The college environment is condusive to studying.</p>
<p>Aren't you also the one without a social life? Therefore you get more time to spend alone holed up in a corner. What classes do you take that make you think college is entirely easier?</p>
<p>my high school was pretty tough offerring every possible course available etc.
it prepared us for college pretty well.</p>
<p>in college if i were to take some classes most freshman take, college would be a brezze. however, due to my hs classes i've advanced forward much quicker and skipped many of the freshman courses. i'm taking either the hardest freshman courses or upper level courses. therefore, college for me at least is not easier than hs. it's been a continuation of the challenging path i've been on. if i were to stick with the more average freshamn courses it would have been a breeze probably like middle school.</p>
<p>1: maybe, but it doesn't take into account the intensity of college classes. AP classes get a whole year to cover a semester's worth of material in college.
2: see above. assuming you go to a school where the students and academics are at your level (most of your peers are about at your level), it's hard to find colleges where your work there is easier.
3: that's an awfully light schedule then...10-15 (max) hours is a pretty easy courseload.
4: um. you're kidding, right?</p>
<p>1) Only four or five classes instead of 8. You're mind isn't as cluttered with 87 or 8 different subjects.</p>
<p>Wrong. I had 4 classes a semester in high school. Now I have 6 classes a semester.</p>
<p>2) AP and honors classes are tough...I'd say some of my AP classes in HS were comparble---if not harder---than a lot of classes in college. </p>
<p>AP classes weren't very difficult, and could only be maybe considered equivalent to the intro level classes they test you out of.</p>
<p>3) More time to do your work, less time in class. I only have about 2 or 3 hours in class on any given day. That gives me 12 or more hours to do work.</p>
<p>That's because in high school, you did a large amount of the required work in class. You have more time out of class, but the amount of homework you get (should have) increased by a much larger factor.</p>
<p>4) The college environment is conducive to studying.</p>
<p>I do my homework in my room. Having a roommate makes it sliiightly less conducive to getting stuff done.</p>
<p>Hah! High School was pretty easy. If I did not do well, it was my own fault. In college, sometimes it is not possible/reasonable to get As in classes. In college I busted my ass for a C+ in a class last year. Also I only had 4-5 classes in High School, now I have 5. The environment is not more conducive to studying at all, you have to be so much more motivated. Earlier this semester I got behind in some classes pretty badly, because there was no way to check if I did my work and I skipped readings. Everything in High School is spoonfed to you. Now you are given everything and you have to sift through it yourself.</p>
<p>My high school prepared me well for college, but college is by no means easier. Yes, you are only taking 4-5 courses, but much of the time, a semester-long course in college covers what would be a year-long course in high school.</p>
<p>HS is in no way easier, but ive found myself doing better in college, simply because I get in an academic mood. In HS, my classes (save the few APs) consisted of the teacher yelling at the idiots to shut up for an hour, a ton of worksheets being passed out, and a complete and utter anti-intellectual atmosphere. And studying was complete counter culture.</p>
<p>In college, lecture is (usually) interesting, readings are interesting, discussions are more intellectual, and although friends will distract you a TON, they know when its time to crack down before a test, and will respect that you need to study.</p>
<p>Academically, college seems easier. The reason is because I take five classes instead of eight, don't have to have two toughies on the same schedule if I don't want to, and don't have to go to class every single day.</p>
<p>In high school I did okay, but my academics were worse than they have been in college for these reasons:</p>
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<li>More classes...see above</li>
<li>I was involved in way more in HS</li>
<li>I had a much better social life in HS and was always with my friends</li>
<li>I took classes less seriously in HS, notably senior year...in English, for example, I was concerned about two things: the school announcements and what I was doing after class (lunch period that I often did other stuff during). You can add a third item to that agenda if you count the fact that I cared more about catching up with two of my friends in the hallway after that class. In math, I normally BSed with the guy next to me all period.</li>
<li>There wasn't much motivation to study. Great program at the high school, but when you know you have 100 or so assignments each semester you often blow one or two off knowing you can make it up later. I either slacked off at the beginning of a nine weeks period or at the end. I could have had 95%'s but settled for 91%'s because of this.</li>
</ol>
<p>yeah HS was cake, especially considering the ridicolous grade inflation there. how else are there millions of 4.0 students out there? i always got As in math and physics, including calculus in HS. if i dare took a calculus class in my university i'd struggle to pull off a C.</p>
<p>I had a lot of friends that went off to Big State U, and they say freshman year of college is SO, SO easy compared to HS work. Only the people who went off to Ivies said there was a "natural progression". I think the reason for this is my highschool is full of overachievers, and our schedules are always so packed. In college, kids are relaxing, having more of a good time, and taking classes they enjoy b/c they tested out of science/math classes or other things they might not do well in/like.</p>
<p>Generally I think you can make college WAY harder than HS if you want to. You can get really involved in student gov, be on the daily school paper, in sports, do honors, have a job etc. But I think most of the kids I knew were tired of the hyper involvement and chose to relax their first year of college, taking a break from work and doing intro classes even though they could have tested out of them, just to spend a bit finding their niche socially and organizationally.</p>
<p>trizkutt, don't worry dude, you're right. That's why people have more time to do stuff in college, because it doesn't require so much of your time UNLESS you want it to.</p>
<p>Also, the thing with college is, there isn't that thing hanging over your head where you have to worry about doing well to get to the next level that you have in HS. With college, if you fail a class, you pay your money and re-take it. HS you have to re-take it, but at the expense of another class or your summer.</p>
<p>1) I actually have the same amount of "real" courses in college as I did in high school...only college courses actually require effort to do well in. I never tried in high school but always made 95s or higher in all my classes...if I did that here, I doubt that I'd even pass my courses.</p>
<p>2) I'm sure at some schools' AP courses may be comparable, but in my experience...no...not at all. </p>
<p>3) Sure, there's a lot more time to do your work...but if you're in a challenging major, there's also a lot more of it and it's a heck of a lot more time consuming.</p>
<p>4) Haha! Only if you lock yourself away in the library, don't have friends, or go to a boring school.</p>
<p>It can depend on your high school. I go to a very tough, selective prep school. With the exception of one school, every alumnus says that our average junior courseload (without honours/ AP) is still harder than his freshman year. </p>
<p>Again, this is talking about a very competitive school. However, I live in an academic area and there are several other schools I can think of (again, talking about prep schools with admissions processes similiar to college admissions) where there has been the same experience.</p>
<p>College being easier is not typical, but it is probable.</p>
<p>Im still a senior in HS but I have the impression that college will be easier than HS for me. Being an IB Diploma candidate, Im used to the tough courseload as many people in this site. However, many people in CC continue on to Ivys or 1st tier schools while im just going to go to a 4th tier school.</p>
<p>So I think that going from IB Diploma to a 4th tier school will be easier? Anyone comment on this? I dont know how much this is going to change regarding im going to do double major in cs and math.</p>