Academic Stats needed for Ivy Pre-read?

Bruno99
Sun, 31 Aug 2025 04:19:40 +0000

@tomgrace just happened upon this thread which hasn’t had a comment in a month and while I don’t actually know anything about academic stats needed for Ivy Pre-Read (ha!) but since you also asked, “You think college at an ivy would be more rigorous than 11 APs and 8 AICE classes over 3 years of high school?”…I just wanted to weigh in on that because a lot people commented that college will be harder than HS and that wasn’t really the case for me. But I will say It probably varies a lot depending on your major.

I went to Brown…a long time ago…and I am definitely of the opinion that it was easier to maintain my mostly A’s and occasional B’s at Brown as compared to high school. In HS I took almost all AP and honors classes, as I believe most Ivy admits do. And, in general, I found the academics at Brown to be similar or possibly even slightly easier than my HS schedule. It could be because we only took 4 classes per semester (that probably helped), but it wasn’t any harder than HS. I am absolutely certain there were harder majors than mine, so I totally get that some people had the opposite experience. For example a couple of my friends majored in Human Bio (not sure if that’s still a thing?) and they definitely had more rigorous courses…and more courses…than I did. I also have a graduate degree from a different Ivy, and I honestly found it similar in terms of level of difficulty.

Good luck to you!