@ljberkow and @ljberkow : I think most languages, regardless of group, are “get out what you put in”. There are no “tricks” or unusually high level cognitive tasks/assignments that can separate between folks who all put in the effort like some other courses. Grades are indeed important, but this person has a sort of “basic” schedule with courses that are not known to have large section to section variations in grading and presentation of content. They’ll be alright and should simply do the best they can whether courses require a decent amount of effort or not. They’ll be better off for experiencing a range of difficulty levels given the environment they’ll be in in about 2 years.
I do think they were worried about having to work (being willing to do so, but flat out already not wanting to ever do so are different to me), because hardly no one posts this in this manner. Like listing every class they are considering and asking us who is the “easy” section among each one of them? People merely concerned about grades (and more so how attainable are good ones) would more so just ask if a schedule or professor is too much in a specific context or maybe more general questions about whether they can do well at Emory, or what would be one particularly easy course to balance out other stuff. This looks like asking for the secret formula schedule and series of profs that ensures they are pushed the absolute least. Complete risk aversion. The framing is just weird versus other posts expressing concerns about performance or difficulty of schedule.
They can Save super ease for rushing/pledging if they wanna do greeklife, job interview season, or senioritis. Surely this person can’t be tired or this scared (of what exactly? I wouldn’t know) already.