<p>first off, I am pretty sure Harvard DOES have core curriculum. Its not a specific set of courses like Columbia, but even way back around 1980 they were introducting a narrower set of choices than the old distribution requirements. I do not know what Zuckerberg took, but I suspect to take only courses that had little homework would have taken some intense degree of careful selection.</p>
<p>he also would have needed to pursue a major. I presume CS - which I presume he aced because he was good at it. </p>
<p>I can tell you that people do flunk out of harvard, and lots of other people work hard, as at all the Ivies and many other selective schools. Go to one, and check out the libraries on a Saturday night.</p>