What about the rigor at this school???

asiaknight
Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:26:27 +0000

It’s not that you’ll get more homework than in high school. In fact, you’ll probably get a little less, but the grading here is MUCH more stringent (i.e. you probably can’t ******** a lot of stuff if you’re taking tough class), and for honors courses in the hard sciences, some problems are hard, while some are damn impossible to do without instruction from the professor. Homework here is more time consuming.

Trust me on this one - if you’re really looking for four tough courses…you can probably expect upwards of 35 hr of homework a week (probably more) As for my own experience, I took Calc BC sophomore year, got my 5, and then I blew past Diff. EQ and multivariable Calc Junior year, getting A’s without too much effort, so I thought that, naturally, math here would be a breeze. Then, after 20-30 hours a week of studying and homework for my 1st quarter math, I ended up barely squeezing by, with a B, no less.