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<p>I completely agree. Some may think that my posts claiming that Chicago has the hardest classes are nothing more than bragging, but the fact is, having the hardest classes isn’t necessarily the best thing for many individual students. Great researchers often work best under low-pressure environments, and coming to Chicago can take a lot of their time to do individual research away. Other schools could certainly choose to make their graduate classes harder - I just think that they hold the opinion that it wouldn’t be extraordinarily beneficial to their students to do so. (I must also add as a disclaimer that class difficulty often depends more on the individual professor than the school. I’ve noticed that the classes taught by some of the incoming professors are significantly easier than the professors who have taught here for 10-20 years.)</p>