<p>I go to a public school in New York City with a decent reputation in this area (Baruch). It seems like a lot of my friends in other colleges are really working hard, but this has been the easiest academic year in a while for me...I found HS much harder...Not to say that I have a 4.0 GPA, but atleast I know that I could have done a lot better, but in HS I did a year of the IB program, and I don't think I could get a 7/7 on all of the subjects no matter how much I studied, especially HL Physics... I don't think so. For example, I took HL Economics and it wasn't that difficult because I really enjoyed it, but when I compare each class, the IB one seemed to have more material and require a LOT more (coursework).</p>
<p>I did go to a NYC Publich HS for my senior year though, and I thought it was easy as middle school though, so it may have just been the IB program, regardless, I'm not studying nearly as much as others are and I'm getting all A's this semester...</p>
<p>So I'm wondering if you guys think that college has been easy/hard, especially compared with HS. </p>
<p>I know I probably should have posted this under 'College Life', but this forum is more active.</p>
<p>I hear ya. One of the reasons my courses have been ridiculously easy is that I've been taking Intro courses/liberal arts requirements... so I expect it to get harder.</p>
<p>high school wasnt hard, i just didnt try. the college i go to now is so easy. i never have homework and get a's on tests i barely study for. i did not study once in high school and still ended up with a 3.2.</p>
<p>um, my school is by no means easy...all of our teachers are the same level quality of those at a university, in fact, the majority of which are retired from thier research and want to continue teaching because they love teaching. and then on the other end of the spectrum we have teachers who are just beginning thier teaching career and are also enthusiastic about teaching </p>
<p>they offer honors programs, academic honor societies, etc,etc...it is by no means 'easy'..but then again, the one thing that separates us from a larger university is the curve. the nice thing is, the curve still sometimes helps you here! thats freakin' awesome. yeah, in two years, the curve will work against you, but at least its not so bad.</p>
<p>reppin' the community college scene;
math and science courses can be difficult.
sociology/psych/history/english etc etc for the most part seem to be at least easy B's w/ little work. If you want an A, you have to work a little bit harder though.</p>
<p>i hate when people automatically assume that cc's are totally easy.
that is all :-P</p>
<p>it'll kick your butt. i miss taking classes like econ with 5 homeworks year.
Here you get 13 homeworks, 10-12quizzes, 3 midterms + a final, lab, llab quiz. i don't think that i need to solve 30 problem homework in multivariable. especially annoying since i am really good at math so i have to waste my time writing out easy long problems.
i want to get a syllabus and see</p>
<p>My son is spending much, much more time on homework in college than he did he high school. Think he would say that college is much more difficult, though I'm sure it depends on your school. He has friends at other schools that are pulling all A's with partying most nights of the week.</p>
<p>Enhhh...I went to a pretty difficult private school and loved it, and now I'm at a public state university, and it's a skate. I'm bored and unmotivated...and kind of mad, since I could have gotten a higher GPA if I had been at all motivated to work a little harder. I know it's my responsiblity to motivate myself, but there's a point beyond which I think that's just asking too much.</p>
<p>My high school was tough. 1 Harvard admit, 1 Yale, several UCLA students, top 50 public schools in the nation, 5 valedictorians, 10 salutatorians.</p>
<p>My GPA.....1.62 barely graduated.</p>
<p>College wasn't harder, just different. Most of my classes were,
"Paper 1
Midterm 1
Paper 2
Midterm 2
Final"
format. The teachers liked the subjects they taught and didn't teach to tests (AP exams, SATs, STARs, Exit Exams, Competency tests, ect). The students were more engaged and less competitive. Less regimented schedules and teachers less bound by the shool administration. </p>
<p>I think a good rule for any college students is, if you like the course and you think it's interesting, you'll do well. If you don't, it will be hard to make the grade.</p>
<p>I think that's a good rule, too. I've found that I've gotten higher grades in harder subjects than in lower subjects on more than one occasion, just because I was interested. I wish professors would try harder to make their courses interesting.</p>
<p>vaco008, what? The relative easiness of a college? It probably does. I bet a 3.5 from UChicago means more than CUNY Baruch...</p>
<p>This is how my grades are calculated:
Business Law: Midterm and Final
English: 4 essays, midterm, final, hw
Economics: 2 midterms, 1 final
History: midterm and final
Business: 2/3 of the grade is the average of 3 tests, 1/3 is a project. </p>
<p>I agree that people usually do better in courses that they are interested in. I think another factor, perhaps even more influential, is the professor. I love economics and am really interested with the subject, but I absolutely hate my professor right now. I'm just lucky I took IB HL Eco in HS, or else I would have dropped the course because I don't like the way he teaches or his attitude. On the other hand, I'm taking American History (reconstruction-WWII) and I'm loving it. I had originally been very skeptical because I never liked studying US History (no offense), but this was the only history course I could take, so I did. The professor, who graduated from UChicago :), is amazing and I usually end up talking with him after class and stuff. I've noticed I usually care more about classes with professors I like.</p>
<p>It's so true. My main motivation for transferring is a British Literature class I took last semester, with a guy who was only teaching it as a part of earning his PhD (he told us that). It was the first time in my life I ever hated an English class, and the first B I ever got in an English class. It wasn't even hard, just pointless...instead of discussing the characters' relationships, etc., we'd memorize their full names and the names of the settings. It made me so angry, especially because the grade implies that I was just slacking off.</p>
<p>My CC can be difficult at times, I've been told by people that mcc is harder than most of the schools in NJ (Kean, Seton Hall, Monmouth, FD, etc.)</p>