<p>What? hm?</p>
<p>Chicago has always been challenging and has always been doable. The students who are admitted are able to do the work; the students who attend want to do it. Some people have this idea that Chicago is an academic hellhole of sorts and that work is excruciating… it really isn’t. Unless you want it to be. In which case we’ll make it as hard as you want, and then some.</p>
<p>(That link to the honors calc problem set is a perfect example of choosing to do difficult work-- most students opt for much less rigorous calc sequences).</p>
<p>Class profiles are getting slightly stronger numbers-wise every year, but I think you’d be hard-pressed to argue that this slight upwards shift means a more academically passionate, “smarter” class. I think the upwards shift has to do a lot more with our changing image and our increased selectivity than the relative academic brainpower of the people who have attended this institution over the years.</p>