which has the hardest course load for undergrad?

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I would hope in your experience with the sciences you spent some time studying probability and statistics, and would be familiar with what a selection bias is.

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<p>I wasn’t obtaining a sample to conduct hypotheses testing for statistical analysis. Selection bias has nothing to do with this. </p>

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Whether or not a course is graded on a curve is entirely the decision of an academic department or a course professor.

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<p>From experiences at my undergrad, and the experiences of my friends at the Ivy Leagues, all non-humanities courses are curved while the humanities are never curved. While the nature of the curve does depend on the professor, the non-humanities are still curved.</p>

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I could point out how most engineers are utter failures in business and in their own personal lives and careers as a result of hubris, how they are more responsible than any other group for logistical failures on massive scales because of their complete lack of leadership abilities and social ineptitude, how the self-imposed seclusion of scientists from the “real world” generally leads to the devolution of their fields and pulls their work further into the meaningless as a result of their inability to recognize societal practicalities, how…

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<p>You’re just rambling incessantly and throwing cheap shots at engineers for being social failures and isolating themselves from society. Give me a break. Remember what this thread is about? The difficulty of various courses and subjects in undergrad.</p>

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There’s plenty of gray area in everything related to college. 90% of it is effort, 10% of it is a foundation of knowledge. Assuming someone doesn’t have something out of their control that impedes them (a learning disorder), anyone can get through physics with effort and a solid mathematical background. Some people will find it easier, just like some people will find mechanical engineering easier, but not every student who graduates with a GPA over 3 in physics is some prodigy.

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<p>You are exaggerating what people are saying. I said that the prodigies tend to be Physicists because it requires another level of thinking. This cannot be logically construed as “anyone who graduates with a 3.0+ in Physics is a prodigy.” People can “get through” science majors, duh. It just takes more work “getting through” science than “getting through” humanities. And let’s be honest, some universities are far harder to “get through” than others so you have to take the quality and caliber of the institution into account. In general the humanities are easier at every institution. I have no doubt a person with below average intelligence can get through science at podunk university, but can that same person make it through MIT? And how much harder is science than humanities for that person at podunk university?</p>