<p>haha berkeley is not there~</p>
<p>AceRockolla, 50 units each term is not possible...unless their unit is different than ours. At HMC, you overload after 18 credits per semester. To obtain an engineering degree, you used to have to overload for 2 years to graduate. Now that they have reworked the numbers, you don't have to "overload".</p>
<p>They require ~400 units to graduate. That means about 50 units a semester. They say a unit=one hour of work, so the units are the same as most universities. Caltech is just ridiculous i guess.</p>
<p>Chicago, Reed, CalTech, Harvey Mudd come to mind.,</p>
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<p>CN founded MIT while in the womb.</p>
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<p>Berkeley is a huge school. The grueling Engineering programs (namely EECS, EE, ME, etc) are a very small part of the entire community.</p>
<p>Reed College</p>
<p>Reed definitely,</p>
<p>their graduation rates at abysmal because of the workload! plus its so intense that anybody who stays for a semester is considered an 'alumni' (not just if you graduate)</p>
<p>from what i've heard-</p>
<p>chicago, swarthmore, MIT (duh), hopkins, and cornell.</p>
<p>You know that chuck norris counted to infinity, twice? right?</p>
<p>well, in regard to caltech, i was just looking at my friend's schedule and 3 caltech credits = 1 hmc credit. </p>
<p>1 credit at hmc is 1 hour of class plus 3 hours of hw per week.
normal load is 16-17.
17 hours of class and 51 hrs of hw a week. i dunno if i do that much hw but i know that i am in class at least 17 hrs a week.</p>
<p>what do you mean by academically intense???</p>
<p>for example some schools require a lot more outside the classroom work and you find yourself constantly studying (schools like MIT, etc.)</p>
<p>Some schools are academically intense in the sense that you might not be studying as much but the competition is extremely intense. Here at Wharton, for example, the school is academically intense because of competition. I've had tests where a 23.5/25 points gives you a C. </p>
<p>Other schools are academically intense in the sense that you have to take more classes than at other schools, etc.</p>
<p>you can go to princetonreview.com and they have academic rankings for schools</p>
<p>in no particular order,</p>
<p>Reed
Cal Tech
Harvey mudd
MIT
Carleton
Grinnell
US Military Academy
Swarthmore
US Air Force Academy
Rice
Johns Hopkins
UChicago</p>
<p>"Other schools are academically intense in the sense that you have to take more classes than at other schools, etc."</p>
<p>i've had tests where a 40/100 gets you a C. that's funny that we have completely opposite problems.</p>
<p>Cooper Union is very intense. Shimer used to be, probably still is.</p>
<p>I've heard that all anyone does at Case Western Reserve University is study. It kind of makes sense; sports aren't really a distraction--their sports teams aren't that popular at all.</p>
<p>Kettering...</p>
<p>I've been told that Case, Johns Hopkins, and U. Chicago all have insane workloads. Not sure how hard the work is, though.</p>