<p>I have been told that getting A's at Ivy League schools is extremely difficult, but among the 8 schools, which one seems the easiest?</p>
<p>The "easiest" Ivy is the one that's best fit to everything about YOU.</p>
<p>I ain't askin the question to high schoolers like you and me. I am askin to grown-ups.</p>
<p>None of the grown-ups, unlike the high schoolers, ever attended 8 Ivies.</p>
<p>getting A's at any university is very difficult and takes a lot of hard work. but theoretically, the easiest (and i use the word "easy" loosely) is brown, because they do not require core classes. thus, you can take all the classes you are most interested in and focus on them with more passion than say, an english major that is required to take a math class at cornell. btw, cornell has the rep for being the hardest ivy.</p>
<p>actually, the "easiest" grading Ivy has to be Harvard, where nearly everyone graduates with honors (~85%). Of course, it's also the hardest to get into. Next would be Princeton, but they are starting to cap the # of A's per class.</p>
<p>Rumor has is that Cornell is the "hardest" since they grade more on a C+/B- curve.</p>
<p>Most people say Brown</p>
<p>BROWN mos def</p>
<p>If you are seriously thinking about choosing a school because it is the most "easy" to get A's in, Ivy League is DEFINITELY not for you.</p>
<p>Choose Ivy because you want to LEARN, not because you're so obsessed with grades that you'll cut off a toe if you get an A-.</p>
<p>Lighten up people. This is definitely something to be considered in a college decision. The OP never said that it mattered that much to him, but no one wants to go to an overly competitive school with professors out to fail you.</p>
<p>I think its clear that no one can really say the answer, since I'm guessing no one on this board has gone to all 8 Ivies. Its just people speculating and talking about things that they have no idea about.</p>
<p>"Harvard, where nearly everyone graduates with honors (~85%). Of course, it's also the hardest to get into."</p>
<p>of course the majority of students graduate with honors, since they ARE harvard students, and all the slackers get weeded out by the 1st year. you can't really label it as the hardest to get into either. harvard, yale, princeton, and stanford are all equally hard and there are cases where someone will get into harvard but won't get into the others, and vise versa.</p>
<p>I think the open curriculum does make things easier. It is easier to get an A in a class that excites you.</p>
<p>"If you are seriously thinking about choosing a school because it is the most "easy" to get A's in, Ivy League is DEFINITELY not for you."</p>
<p>Is that much different from going to school for prestige? Or for future connections? Or anything remotely ancillary to the academics? Please refrain from spouting such paternalistic platitudes. People are free to choose a school according to any metric or trait. After all, it is often the intangibles that influence one's decision.</p>
<p>Ah, you sound like those naysayers who yell at anyone who even considers going into medicine for the money.</p>
<p>not that familiar with brown, so sbmom could be correct.</p>
<p>ptmagnolia: </p>
<p>each one of those schools you mention has a Frosh retention rate of 97-98%. However, Harvard has the highest graduation rate of all of them; thus, not sure which part of each class is being "weeded" out.</p>
<p>For the last year that data has been compiled, Harvard and Yale both had a 10% acceptance rate, followed closely by Columbia (11%), Yale (11%) and Stanford (13%). I would agree that the top four numbers are a statistical dead-heat; but I would exclude Stanford since there maybe a geographic difference in applicant pools between east and west (Stanford receives thousands of apps from lowly Calif alone).</p>
<p>btw, Stanford is also a place for relatively easy B's.</p>
<p>Anyone who goes into medicine for the money is making a mistake. Its a very hard lifestyle and there are easier ways to get rich.</p>
<p>The 85% graduating with honors at Harvard thing is no longer true. I think they changed their criteria and now it's about half as much as that. </p>
<p>I agree, you shouldn't be picking a school based on how little work you can do but still get the Ivy name prestige. </p>
<p>The "easiness" of a school also depends on your major. If you're premed at Brown, I don't think it'll be a breeze.</p>
<p>as recently as a few years ago, Harvard's graduating class was comprised of 91% honors, according to the Boston Globe...</p>
<p>MoatToMoat, it may be a difficult lifestyle, but it's probably more stable and provides safer employ than your "easier ways to get rich." I spoke with a doctor quite alot over the course of a couple weeks and he said many people are mainly in it for the money and/or ego. He said when he needed to take off time, people would compete for his lost hours of work just to bring a little extra cash home.
Also, the way he described it, medicine, if you are lucky, is much less consuming than say law, which, what with the up or out mantra, requires much more time, both before and after becoming a partner.
It really does not matter why you choose a specific job so long as you do well in it and are satisfied with it.
Please, enlighten me, what's an easier way to get rich? I bet they are all riskier than medicine, assuming you can get through college and med school.
By the way, I am in no way planning to go into medicine. I just detest the paternalistic sentiment often vented here. People are free to choose any job so long as the reason is sound and legal.</p>
<p>if they retain 97-98% then um...2-3% are being weeded out :-). and is there really a significant difference between an acceptance rate of 10%, 11%, and 13%? just because you get into princeton or stanford doesn't mean you'll get into harvard or yale.</p>