I just finished college and i thought it was so hard. High school was kind of a joke and the only class I ever worked hard in was ap calc like 10 hours a week on that class. And then college was like taking 4 or 5 classes on that level. It was a lot of work, and some concepts didn’t stick as easily for me as it did for others but I’m graduating with a 3.1 GPA as an engineering major at a school that’s has made lists for the lack of a’s given.
Of course it’s harder. It also depends on your work ethic. It also depends on the university you’re attending, your teacher, their grading scheme, etc. It depends on so many things.
Some of your GE’s will feel like a joke. Some of them won’t. If you’re going to be doing pre-med, you’ll need to keep a super high GPA, which I think can be stressful and quite demanding of your time. You might not like the sacrifices you’re going to have to make to study. I think you’ll have to be a hard worker to make it through pre-med.
Some majors you cannot complete because you are a hard worker. You basically, in my opinion, have to be wired for it after a certain point. If your brain doesn’t make the right assumptions since there’s no real procedures to follow, then you won’t get the right answer. I think you’re safe for pre-med, but I’d take that with a grain of salt as I don’t know anything about pre-med. I was pre-pharmacy for my first three years, so there were some overlap. My girlfriend was pre-med for one year, but she quit after Advanced Organic Chemistry. I think that was her only C she ever got.
It depends how much you work. If you don’t have a job in college, you’re going to have insane amounts of free time to study. In highschool, you had a lot less free time. As for the coursework, underdivision is going to be very similar to highschool. Upper division is a bit harder.
As others have said, it really varies by professor, by course, by major, by college and by what grades you want to get.
Both D and S are working much harder than they ever did in HS. S took a couple of local community college classes over the summer and they were easier than HS classes. One of D’s HS friends transferred because her school was too easy. Many of D’s friends college friends (in easier majors) do very little work.
People who graduate from my high school say our highschool made college easier for them. This is bc everyone in my school is required to take IB and AP. It’s was also named one of the most challenged high schools in U.S. By Washington post.