Urgent: Is Davidson too hard?

zxxRice
Sun, 13 Dec 2020 02:45:05 +0000

Currently admitted student here

I transferred to Davidson from another university with solid historical reputation. I don’t think someone is eligible to compare and comment on difficulty of a college’s coursework if you never had classes at another college. In my experience, the difficulty of coursework is a ‘changing criteria’. To be clear, it depends on professor not college. You will get a much lower grade on a same course if you met some tough grader. I understand some high school seniors will never think about professors when they are making decisons. Tough grader is in any university, not just Davidson. Remember to use ratemyprofessor to investigate those professors at the school you applied. So, use hard/grade deflation to describe a whole college is not accurate. Davidson is tough, but you will get grade that you deserve. This is the same for any other peer schools. If you get a C at Davidson, it doesn’t mean you can get a A/A+ at Williams/Haverford/Colby/Colgate/vassar. Ivy League may be an exception. Once you enrolled into a top college/university, you need to prepare to work harder and harder. Students at Davidson work hard, but it doesn’t mean student at peer schools can get an easy A in most of classes. It’s not easy in any top school.

It’s also misleading to say Davidson students changed to ‘easier’ major before they graduate to get a higher GPA. Davidson has distribution requirements, and changing major does not mean you will never had classes outside the major. It’s ridiculous that someone said changing major could affect GPA. I admit there’s difference in GPA between departments because each department has different criteria to evaluate students, but that difference is minor. Someone study physics does not mean it takes harder courses than someone study art history/literature major. If you are good at math or logical things, you will find mathematics is easy, but creative writing could be difficult for you. That’s why is a ‘changing criteria’. Difficult or not is from a really personal thing, which does not contribute to the facts. As I know, the most popular major of Davidson graduates is Econ and Political science. Both of them are considered ‘tough major’ mentioned in past posts in this thread. However, they produced a large number of graduates who placed well. Davidson has strong network in finance related field and that’s why Davidson placed well. You can also check the latest outcome report on Davidson’s website. There’s specific outcome for every graduate in each major. Recruiting is not the same thing as college/grad school application. Employers focused much more on your ability, your experience, your network than your college GPA. Good GPA will not get you a job, bad gpa does not mean you are done.