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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2019-03-28 05:23 pm

[ SECRET POST #4467 ]


⌈ Secret Post #4467 ⌋

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[Robert Sheehan (Actor from Umbrella Academy and Misfits)]


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[Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman]


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(Anonymous) 2019-03-29 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
It's pretty hard to flunk out of private universities in the US if you're rich. You're a paying customer. They're going to give you every chance to make it work.

And not all of these schools are academically rigorous - Princeton and Yale, yes. But USC, not so much.

(Anonymous) 2019-03-29 09:33 am (UTC)(link)
And not all of these schools are academically rigorous - Princeton and Yale, yes. But USC, not so much.

No, Princeton, Yale, Harvard, etc. are actually much less academically rigorous than non-Ivy schools in terms of assessing students. They have policies that make it hard for a student to fail any class regardless of the level of effort put in. I know people who went to Princeton and Harvard and they're straight up about the fact that Ivy League schools are networking schools. Once you get in, the classes may be great but the academic standards are extremely low. This is because the schools have two types of students: Hermione Granger try-hards with extremely strong applications who are going to do well with whatever courses you throw at them, and children of rich people who are there to network with rich and powerful people and get a nice job after college. In either case, assessment of the students' academic work is unnecessary. And (in the second case) actively undesirable.

(Anonymous) 2019-03-29 10:35 am (UTC)(link)
Honestly, ime it's pretty hard to flunk out of private universities in the US if you're poor, too. Universities want good statistics, which includes the percentage of students who graduate in 3/4/5/6 years. The hardest parts of college are getting in and doing well; simply getting by enough to graduate is comparatively easy.