<p>I dropped out of HS so definitely HS</p>
<p>College</p>
<p>Never studied, received A's. The curriculum was not challenging.</p>
<p>high school was so much harder...
so far in college i have straight A's and don't really work as hard</p>
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<p>If your college was that "hard," I'd love to see your HS.</p>
<p>College for me is a lot of work. In high school even if you got one bad grade, you could always make it up. In college, most of my classes depend on my midterm and final. Most of my homework is reading and while there's less grading, I feel it's a big change.</p>
<p>College is waaaay harder, but more fun.</p>
<p>I did homeworks in HS right before class, essays the night before, didn't study for tests, etc.</p>
<p>Problem sets in college can take days of collaboration with students. And midterms/finals are just deadly.</p>
<p>Well, I'm working much harder in college than I did in high school - but obviously I didn't try very hard in high school, because I was technically a "dropout." So I suppose college is "harder," but my grades are way better because I'm working at it.</p>
<p>School-work wise high school was worthless most of the time. I did my homework the night before always, and studied for tests like 30 minutes before and only made 4 B's all of high school (2 in freshman year and 2 in sophomore year, straight A's jr and sr year). HS was also total crap in terms of social stuff too, it sucked major butt.
College is harder in terms of sheer amount of effort you have to put into stuff. You can't just BS something most of the time. Writing 10 page research papers on the stigma of AIDS in South Africa and reading 100 pages of 19th century social evolutionary theory in 2 days is HARD. But it's manageable. Time management skillz, guys. I do like 3 organizations too, and I was on the dean's list in the spring.</p>
<p>I am working far harder in college than I ever did in high school, and I'm not succeeding nearly as much. By succeeding I mean getting "A"s and yanno, not doing poorly on quizzes. I've been told it's just because this is a transition period between the two, but I'm inclined to disagree.</p>
<p>to jamesford:</p>
<p>I meant in high school, I never studied, yet received A's.</p>
<p>BC's undergrad business school is not a cakewalk.</p>
<p>High School was harder for me so far.</p>
<p>I was never one for busy work, and that is what high school is, busy work. I'm great at writing papers and taking tests. Midterms really aren't difficult at all, as long as you know the material. </p>
<p>I still am putting in a lot of effort for college though, just to stay on top of my game.</p>
<p>haha, I basically( not officially) dropped out of hs as well. While college is more academically intense, hs can be harder in the sense that the environment is not conducive to learning. I never studied in hs b/c I never felt motivated.</p>
<p>High school was definitely harder in terms of workload. College offers a lot more free time, but the tests can be pretty unpredictable. High school tests were more predictable.</p>
<p>College is definitely harder, but my grades are also better. High school was ridiculously boring.</p>
<p>College is harder. I remember all of the IB students coming back and being like "IB was so much harder than college!!" Haha, no.</p>
<p>I think it's because in college you have to learn more in a smaller space of time, and you can't just gloss over and not care about the hard parts.</p>
<p>Depends on which classes you take and which hs you went to...</p>
<p>For me, spanish is easier, english is harder... Bio is probably harder as well</p>
<p>I think it also depends on your major...nothing I took in high school came close to the PChem, Electromagnetism, Differential Equations, and Biological Transport Phenomena classes I've had to take as an engineer.</p>
<p>I agree, if you're an engineering or a science major, college will most likely be harder. I've noticed that english/social science-types of classes are about 1.5x harder than high school classes while science/math classes are about 3x harder. Some majors require weekly problem sets while others only require occasional papers. There is a noticeable difference in the effort and homework required between science/engineering majors and social science/humanities majors at the college level, while the difference in high school is less.</p>
<p>I'm a Classics major and it's a <em>lot</em> of reading. I have a science class I feel I'm behind in too. The lectures are long, there are random quizes, and the grades are harsh.</p>