Difficulty of College

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Your support for this statement is that Stanford does not like to fail students while lower-ranked engineering schools will fail students. I don’t think the failure rate is applicable to difficulty.</p>

<p>Engineering is a very un-subjective major and so there is a basic level of difficulty in the coursework and exams. If a #5 and a #50 school gave exams of the same level of difficulty, the bell curve of scores will have a much lower median at the #50 due to the disparity in student quality. However, most courses are curved so I think it’s reasonable for the #5 to give fewer F’s than the $50.</p>

<p>Focus: 1. Higher ranked schools would generally be harder, especially in curved classes as your competition would be harder. There might be less F’s but those A’s would also be more difficult to get.</p>

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<li> Look up the details of the major you’re interested in. It’s been my experience that the standard curriculum at lower ranked schools teach less material but this will vary by major.</li>
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