Top 10 schools with most stressful academics?

College Search & Selection
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<p>you know the ones. the schools that are so demanding that the students go nuts trying to keep up!</p>

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<ol>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Uchicago </li>
<li>Cornell</li>
</ol>

<p>I'm not qualified to speak on the rest but it'd probably include: Olin, Georgia Tech, Williams College, <em>insert top LAC</em>, Carnegie Mellon (for the SCS), Berkeley..</p>

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<p>I wouldn't say Williams. The students do work very hard but they are not crying in their sleep agonizing over their 10 page paper.</p>

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<p>I would add Swarthmore to the list.</p>

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<p>I second Swarthmore and Cornell.</p>

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<p>UChicago for sure...</p>

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<p>Reed should probably be on the list as well.</p>

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<p>Davidson, Wake.</p>

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<p>Columbia should be on that list as well.</p>

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<p>Not in order
1. Caltech
2. MIT
3. Cornell
4. Chicago
5. Swarthmore
6. Reed
7. Columbia
8. Berkeley
9. Rice
10. UCLA</p>

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<p>Good list but UCLA seems a bit out of character.</p>

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<p>I'd subtract Cornell, only b/c that's relative to the school your in similar to saying Stanford, whereas say, St. Johns or Westpoint would be across the board.</p>

<p>St. Johns and Olin should definitely be high on that list. If you know Olin, you know they study more than any other tech school, that's practically the only thing to do.</p>

<p>And I'd put Reed above Swarthmore maybe Chicago especially since to graduate from Reed you MUST complete a senior thesis and defend it before their department's faculty. And from what my old schoolmates communicated to me, Humanties 101 is the most trialing freshmen seminar imaginable(plus, everyone must take it), no complaints from Amherst freshman seminar, better than reading the Illiad in a week.</p>

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<p>Columbia's difficulty is relative to your major.</p>

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<p>William and Mary</p>

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<p>Interesting enough, here's Princeton Review's list:
<a href="http://encarta.msn.com/college_article_neverstopstudying/10_schools_where_students_never_stop_studying.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://encarta.msn.com/college_article_neverstopstudying/10_schools_where_students_never_stop_studying.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<ol>
<li>Reed College</li>
<li>Webb Institute</li>
<li>CalTech</li>
<li>Olin</li>
<li>Harvey Mudd</li>
<li>St. John's (NM)</li>
<li>Wabash College</li>
<li>Marlboro College (the added isolation make the workload seem heavier than it is, if you've visited this school, you'll know what I mean.)</li>
<li>Middlebury College</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Carelton College</li>
<li>Grinell College</li>
<li>United States Military Academy</li>
<li>Swarthmore College</li>
<li>Haverford College</li>
<li>Davidson College</li>
<li> United States Air Force Academy<br></li>
<li>Rice University</li>
<li>Whitman college</li>
</ol>

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<p>1) United States Merchant Marine Academy
2) United States Military Academy
3) United States Naval Academy
4) United States Coust Guard Academy
5) United States Air Force Acacemy</p>

<p>The rest are just party schools</p>

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<p>Let's all let the above remark go. He is entitled to his opinion.................</p>

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<p>lmao...ya...</p>

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<p>haha wow..what a dumb thing to say.</p>

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<p>LFWB dad has a point.</p>

<p>I only have 1st hand knowledge of West Point but I imagine the other academies are similar: Cadets take 18-21 credit hours per semester, the equivalent of 6-7 classes. In addition, they have military duties to fulfill and ALL cadets are playing an intercollegiate or intramural sports depending on the season.</p>

<p>I definitely put my alma mater, Carnegie Mellon, on the list.</p>