<p>Which school would you say is the most difficult, academically? Id say Caltech or Swarthmore .</p>
<p>I'd have to agree with you KK. I have friends who went to most top universities, and those that went to CalTech and Swarthmore seemed to have had the hardest time. But I hear that Johns Hopkins, Chicago, Columbia, Northwestern, MIT, Cornell and Cal are pretty tough. I also know that Michigan is very difficult. And LACs in general are very tough simply because professors are so close to the action. But if I had to pick the two toughest, based on the information I have, I would have to go with CalTech and Swarthmore. My friends at CalTech used to study 8-10 hours a day...on top of their classes, and they still relied on teams to get it all done!!! Swathmore is not much different.</p>