Top 5 Colleges That Will Kick Your Butt

[Erin_s_Dad]

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The service academies are certainly boot camps overall but they hardly kick your butt academically. It is the combination of academics, athletics and military training that makes it hard.

What you say is true to some degree but the core curriculum at the academies makes the academics more rigorous than you portray (or perhaps you believe). </p>

<p>And the survey question which was used to derive the list in the original post used this as the criterion set:

which schools run their students through the most demanding curricula, the most rigorous courses, and the most staggering obstacles to maintaining a social life?

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