<p>I agree with that. My children took classes at Yale and hardly anyone got under a B in classes that weren’t math and more subjective. There is little or no grade inflation at HC.
I know my daughter there took a similar math class as her sister at Yale and got much more work and problem sets, even on her exam. She has more large papers due also but although her sister has less, they probably weigh more for her grade…it balances somewhat.
Some of this is subjective and some is your major, etc. but knowing professors at Yale, they do have inflation and curves that help to some degree, although classes are not “easy” by any means.
There was a young man who left HC for Dartmouth because he said on his FB, “I wanted an A” and wasn’t totally jesting. </p>
<p>Rigor isn’t something you can really rate…everyone is different, but when a grad school or institution recognizes your schools rigor and quality, that is what matters.</p>
<p>^ Well, that transfer might have been a bad move on the young man’s part, since on the same list Dartmouth is ranked as more rigorous than Holy Cross. Dartmouth is #6 whereas Holy Cross is #22!</p>
<p>He hasn’t been heard much of since! : ) He did comment the skiiing would make up for any added stress and he did post his first “A” there I heard to finish his comments. You have to have humor in college to get through a lot of things.</p>
<p>The reason why Holy Cross has no National Merit Scholars is because they award only need-based aid. Harvard, Yale University, and the six other schools in the Ivy League also don’t fund National Merit scholarships because they award only need-based aid.</p>
<p>Holy Cross is #29 on the US News National Liberal Arts colleges list tied with Bucknell and Mount Holyoke. Nova is #1 on the US News Northeast regional universities list. Six years ago when U Richmond had been #1 on the Regional Universities list it got put over on the US News National Liberal Arts list and came on that list at #40.</p>