<p>Franklin & Marshall. Hard work and grade deflation.</p>
<p>UChicago, Holy Cross,Princeton.</p>
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<p>11 people isn't a big enough sample to make a real judgment. And again, it really depends. I know some people who fly by in science at Stanford and Berkeley; they would probably do horribly in a humanities major like English. I know of some English majors who fly by easily, but also many that find it very difficult. English is a very reading- and composition-intensive. People underestimate the difficulty of humanities majors simply because there isn't hard science / difficult math involved.</p>
<p>No doubt the hard sciences tend to give people more trouble, but to say that English, or other humanities, are "easy As/Bs" would be misleading.</p>
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MIT, Caltech, Olin, Cooper Union, and Mudd.</p>
<p>Other schools aren't even on the same level in terms of workload and difficulty.
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<p>That's because other schools are actually diverse in their offerings--more than just engineering and other hard sciences. (And yes, I know that MIT has a few other things and that Cooper is also a "college of art.")</p>
<p>I heard Stanford is a study crazy school.</p>
<p>While many find good balance at Northwestern, it's pretty tough if you are in engineering, MMSS, ISP, or Kellogg undergrad cert programs.</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins.</p>
<p>My boyfriend goes there and it seems all he is ever doing is studying or doing homework. Of course he is a double major, double minor. He still says the hardcore studying/homework is true of those who are not double major/minor as well. And from what I have seen on campus, I have a tendency to agree.</p>
<p>k...i think weve managed to name 90 percent of the top 20 universities/lacs on usnwr, along with a couple of anomalies (wake forest,etc,.)</p>
<p>^^ beefs is right. We've got too many to be meaninful. Let's stick to the five most... Here are mine:</p>
<p>1 Caltech
2 MIT
3 Harvey Mudd
4 Reed
5 Chicago</p>
<p>That said, would anyone really want to go to any of these schools, where the "macho factor" is solely aroud how hard and long one studies? They are a little too extreme 'dweeb for me.</p>
<p>I'd love to go to Chicago. I don't think the macho factor is based solely on that. I think it's challenging. Interests me</p>
<p>Princeton Review Lists are real bunk. They change drastically almost every year. Why? Their methods involve asking something like 20 random students their opinion of their school. Really good science there. </p>
<p>That said, Harvard DOES NOT have grade deflation! It has one of the highest percentages of A's dished out among elite schools.</p>
<p>isnt Cornell known for having kids commit suicide?</p>
<p>"isnt Cornell known for having kids commit suicide?"</p>
<p>probably due to the miserable weather.</p>
<p>Yes, Cornell is known for having kids commit suicide, but it isn't true:
from the MIT student paper (2/3 of the way down)</p>
<p>"Cornell had eight students take their own lives in the past ten years. With about 19,000 students on campus, Cornell has a suicide rate of about 4.3 per 100,000 student years for that time period, far below both MIT and national rates." - MIT</a> Suicides Reflect National Trends - The Tech</p>
<p>The macho factor at Caltech (and I assume the other listed schools, though I wouldn't know from personal experience) is not solely around how much we study. That is certainly an important part of undergraduate culture, but many of actually do have lives too, believe it or not...</p>
<p>Bennington? And above MIT? what.</p>
<p>yale has some grade inflation but it's still far from easy to do well, esp. in the humanities programs. Many philosophy/english/etc professors are notoriously tough graders and won't hand out As or even Bs unless the work is excellent.</p>
<p>.davidson.</p>
<p>Merton College ( a constituent college of Oxford University )</p>