Nearly every Stuy classmate…even those attending HYPS as STEM majors felt the same.
Only exceptions were those who attended schools like MIT, Caltech, CMU(engineering/CS), JHU, Swat, Reed, UChicago, and Cornell(Engineering/A & S) and schools like them in which they felt the academic rigor/quantity of workload was comparable*.
College being far easier than HS was also my own experience despite the fact I graduated somewhere in the bottom quarter of my graduating class and even my own father was initially concerned I’d likely flunk out of my LAC and lose the near-full ride FA/scholarship package as a result because of the academic rep he heard about it. Still ROTFLOL thinking about that considering what actually transpired in undergrad.
- One exception in the hard schools was my salutatorian friend whose MIT roommates recounted with awe and amazement at how he far exceeded them academically while never pulling a single all-nighter and appearing to have more than enough time to enjoy the campus/off-campus parties, nightlife, and Cambridge/Boston during their 4 years.
Still managed to graduate with a BS and MS in EE near the top of both respective classes within 4 years and after a stint working in Europe, returned to MIT for his EE PhD. He was one of countless genuine genius-type HS classmates I encountered during my HS years at Stuy.