<p>Pleonism--</p>
<p>I don't want to hijack this forum, but I just wanted to respond quickly. I'm an honors student at Rutgers and took 8 APs in high school with mostly all 5s and had ~4.5 GPA. However, I work way harder at Rutgers than I did in high school. I have plenty of friends at ivies and other prestigious colleges, and from what I can tell, the intro classes at Rutgers are much easier, but past that the difficulty is around the same... perhaps it can be argued that an A is easier to achieve but the material is just as hard. A courseload can be as hard as you want it to be or you can take the easy route and major in communications. I just wanted to note that a challenging and rewarding education can be had at Rutgers and any other large public research university.</p>