<p>I did Latin and Greek at Exeter, so I hope I can be of some help here. The truth is that Latin and Greek were not so bad. Admittedly, I came into 300 level courses as a prep, which was a bad idea, as I struggled a bit in my first term trying to catch up with the more rigorous Exeter curriculum, which does, unfortunately, at times focus more on grammar than literature, but by winter term I was doing quite well.</p>
<p>Greek was easy enough, as I started from scratch, and although it required more diligence in daily assignments than anything else I never felt that, with a bit of daily effort, I couldn’t handle it. Of course, once I got into college, I may have, say, stopped doing the homework a little bit, and my winter term grade may, say, have dipped off a bit from my fall term grade, but even then it was nothing too dire.</p>
<p>That said, I love languages, and so the reward was worth it. Colleges know classics kids don’t necessarily have grades as high in language as non-classics kids (although I remember reading that the overall GPAs are the same…) and assess those grades differently.</p>
<p>Plus, classics kids are definitely the coolest kids around. Since it’s a small enough department, they/we really do bond…</p>