Is it true that the more prestigious a college is, the harder the coursework?

[Hunt]

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According to friends who were students/TAs/instructors at Harvard, many students who were A students…even at well-reputed public/private schools ended up failing to cut the mustard when they start their undergrad careers.

Well, I myself was a student at Yale, and I say this is baloney. There are a few students at these schools who don’t do well, but it’s generally because they don’t do the work.</p>

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So if you find such grading policies to be absurd, just keep in mind that you’re broadly characterizing entire swathes of the educational establishment as absurd.

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