Are more selective schools harder?

Senior0991
Fri, 22 Apr 2011 03:55:33 +0000

I agree with phantasmajoric’s description.

I visited my friend at a top-10 state school once, and it was a Sunday night in midterms season. Yet though the people I were with were all serious about academics and were in difficult majors, none of them did any work for the entire day+night. Though just an anecdotal experience, I gathered from my friend that this was normal for them. That would almost never happen at Stanford.

So although I’m sure there are people at that state school who work just as hard, if not harder, than Stanford students, I’d say the average student has to work harder at Stanford. To give you a sense of Stanford’s high end, some students do almost nothing but eating, working, and going to classes. It’s insane. And the low end is probably 6-8 hours of work per week or so (so even our slackers work from what I gather). Most students I feel are around 16-28 (?).