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special_k said:
It depends on the strength of the department
Which is typically reflected in reputation
For the reason that stronger departments can (thus do) require more from their students

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I realize now we're getting off-topic, but I have to disagree with you there. The reputation of a department (and of the entire school for that matter) has much more to do with research than teaching, in my opinion. I have friends that have attended Harvard and Yale, for example, and they tell me that it's almost impossible to score less than a B in any class and that the workload is no more challenging than what they experienced at state schools. (This seems to be less true for engineering and hard sciences.)

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