<p>I have heard that everyone at Uchicago is super stressed out and hyper competitive. Is this the case for a humanities major? Is the same true of cornell ? In order to do well at these schools, does one have to forgo a social life and study constantly ?</p>
<p>I haven’t gotten “hyper-competitive” from Chicago at all. Stressed, yes, but not necessarily in a bad way, if that makes any sense? People are stressed because it’s a lot of work, but they also genuinely enjoy it.</p>
<p>Chicago students report that they do, in fact, have social lives (or at least some of them do), although I suppose you’ll just have to take them at their word on that one.</p>
<p>Cornell requires a lot of hard work but it is entirely manageable. Cornell has a 95% graduation rate. That should tell you something. Cornell students have fun, too. There is time to pursue other interests besides academics.</p>
<p>The humanities in general aren’t particularly stressful, from my point of view. And really, visit the schools and it should be pretty obvious most people there are pretty social.</p>