<p>Honestly, how many hours of homework, on average, do University of Chicago students have?</p>
<p>how many hours per day?</p>
<p>I think that's a little broad. The difference of workload between the different majors is equivellent to the difference of workload between different schools.</p>
<p>As far as I understand, it's around 25 hours worth per day.</p>
<p>^ lol</p>
<p>I'm guessing a fairly large amount of time is spent studying in general.</p>
<p>i spend usually 1-2 hours per day.</p>
<p>Depends on when in the quarter, how many courses (3 vs 4), which ones (sosc, chem, 160s, etc. are quite intensive vs ICE AGE, sign language or something like that), what kind of grades you are aiming for, etc. I tend to do most during the weekend (during the day) and try to keep it under <2 hours (usually under 1 hour) on weekdays. Before a midterm, there will obviously be significantly more work.</p>
<p>I study at least 30 hours/week. Of course, I had a midterm and a paper due last week, so it more or less was around the clock work...all waking hours except those when I was at my job.</p>
<p>Language courses here are killers. Mine definitely is upping my study time tremendously.</p>
<p>I am in a new language (romantic) and I have 4 courses and don't do nearly that much studying. Katharos is certainly the extreme exception rather than the rule. Even the kids from Singapore (who have to maintain ridiculous GPAs to keep their scholarship--like a 3.7 or 3.8--and have to graduate in 3 years) aren't doing that much studying in my dorm.. I mean 4+ hours a day of ACTUAL studying?</p>
<p>Do any of you think that you had more homework in high school? And, to be specific, how much homework would a person doing a Bio. major and Math minor have in hours per day and hours per week (on average)? and how about just a Bio. major? and just a Math major? And for Bio. and Math majors, do you guys have any ideas, or at least guesses, on what the average GPA is? Are many Bio. and Math classes graded on discussion, or just core classes for Bio. and Math majors? By the way, thanks everyone for the replies; I really apprecicate them!</p>
<p>I didn't do anything in high school, so I cannot comment on that. I do not know anybody who had less homework here than in high school. The people that would have the ability to take classes that hard in high school are taking classes hard here, so it isn't really applicable. Average gpa for bio majors with a math minor? lol no clue man. If you worry about that now you are going to worry yourself to death. Wait until you get here to worry about it. Neither are going to be easy if you challenge yourself (which you will end up doing I am sure), so don't count on just popping out a high GPA. If you are worried about the GPA solely (which is a big concern for me and others no doubt), then apply somewhere else. Fact is your GPA simply will not be as high as it will be at other schools where there is grade inflation (assuming you did the same amount of work).</p>
<p>davan, yeah, I definitely could be the exception. I'm taking third year Greek (the dead language, mind you); I ran into a friend of mine who took Intermediate with me last year (I audited it in high school), and he told me that he switched his major from Classics (Intermediate was enough...), and that I was "hard core." Yep, I think I am. And the Classics department doesn't try to make things easy.</p>
<p>I never study in my dorm, by the way. I just mosy around and talk to people when I am there; I pretty much have to seclude myself in a cubicle at the Reg if I want to get something done.</p>
<p>AM040189, core math classes are graded based on tests (for my class, two midterms and a final). No idea about other stuff. I am definitely thinking of pursuing math as my major, so I could get back to you about GPAs in a few years. :-)</p>
<p>My S told me an applicable story. He has a first year as one of his roommates. One afternoon after the first week my S and his other roommate saw him reading a magazine or some such thing and asked what he thought he was doing. He asked what they meant. They asked if he had any studying he could do, he said he had is first problem set he could work on, but he felt he could knock it out before class the next day. They asked to see it and delivered the bad news, it was going to take him about 12 hours to do it. He said he never spent that much time in HS on math. They laughed and said "trust us this once." He began working on it, at 3 AM he finally fell asleep, problem set still not done. He did finish before class, however, and was quite grateful...</p>
<p>There's always the Esquared alternative, being about a week behind on all classes and completey, and unsuccessfully, bull ****ting my way through everything</p>
<p>Most wouldn't recommend it. Actually, I don't recommend it.....but, as I'm Esquared I cannot defy myself.</p>
<p>idad, that's a wonderful story! </p>
<p>Yes, one would think that those problem sets, which ask one to do but a mere ten questions, would take ten minutes. Nope. I start mine days in advance so I won't be rushed 'til the last minute.</p>
<p>The only way you would ever have a problem set like that your first quarter of your first year is if you were taking 160s or above. People I know in 150s and 130s and even some people in one of the 190 classes (forget the 3rd digit--it is for people who tested out of calc) routinely have problem sets that take well under 3-4 hours and will have generally a week to complete it.</p>
<p>It was the 160's.</p>
<p>Yeah you're just asking for loads and loads of work if you do that... I'd say that 12 hour problem set time seems about average for that course. I have quite a few friends who have either taken that or are taking it currently and they are all having a lot of "fun" with it.</p>
<p>199 problem sets are pretty easy and take like 2 hours out of a whole week you get to do them in.</p>
<p>Found this info in a previous post re homework:</p>
<p>"For example, one audience member asked how much time the students spent studying, on average. The students who answered said they studied about 3 hours a day, Sunday through Thursday, and not at all on Friday or Saturday. Huh? You should have seen the audience members smirking at each other in total disbelief. I’m so glad my DS will be able to relax a bit more when he goes to college."</p>
<p>Don't know how accurate that is.</p>