<p>Well, here I’m with ID. It is if you’re struggling for an A and can’t earn it.</p>
<p>I know that my D at Barnard regularly has apoplexy about friends of hers who easily gets A’s for work she would be grateful to receive a B on.</p>
<p>It’s true; others’ students experience shouldn’t be her concern, but sometimes she has found it frustrating.</p>
<p>And she is required to do a thesis too.</p>
<p>I think what she finds more frustrating is the repeated assumption that the Brown education is superior because of Barnard’s lowly ranking in USNWR. </p>
<p>But she is getting an excellent education. She was quite shocked to discover the Barnard classes were more difficult than the Columbia classes. In fact most Barnard students have a higher GPA in their Columbia courses than in their Barnard courses.</p>
<p>So perhaps that was the “rude awakening” that Swat students don’t have. Still, the Barnard women adjust fast, and as ID says, never feel that they shouldn’t be studying.</p>
<p>They also have to take five courses each semester which makes the work very intense.</p>
<p>But sorry, I am getting off topic. Please forgive.</p>