Is it often “rumored” here that Ivies are “easy”? If this is true, it is contradictory with this list because 3 of the top 10 are Ivies.
Also, why are there so many private colleges in the list? Isn’t it often rumored here also that many private colleges are for the rich and spoiled (and potentially “lazy”)? /sacastic
I am aware that Columbia has its more comprehensive and inflexible core courses. (Lopsided students had better not go there.) Yale requires 4/32 = 1/8 = 12.5% more credits than Harvard, AP credits are essentially useless and all core courses could not be taken else where.
Chicago deserves its second rank. (Premeds had better not go there. I will take it back, because the third hardest one, Rice, produces many successful premeds year after year – must have something to do with having too many Asian American students there – Chicago/Midwest is no Houston. No wonder many top med schools in midwest open their doors for “the exiles from California.”)
Rice is up there also. Maybe a result from being an engineering-focused school in its history, being the top dog in Texas, and being a little bit too close to BCM (so it inspires their students to go there after graduation?)
How about Princeton? What makes it “hard”?
- College of William & Mary
- Vanderbilt University
- Columbia University
- Bowdoin College
- Princeton University
- Yale University
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Rice University
- University of Chicago
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology