Difficulty of school based on rep...

I am going to throw it out there that Darden isn't probably all that hard. It is a good reputation to keep though, isn't it? The hard school.

Is this advice / post based upon experience in an actual b-school? Can you tell me how easy is law school, medical school, and dental school?

Unfortunately I have yet to attend B-school so of course this is coming with a grain of salt. However I did attend an M7 undergrad and took several core business classes at the business school, and also have many classmates in the b-school with whom I've discussed their experiences.

I don't know you are bringing up law school, which in my opinion is a lot more academically rigorous. Not only is the grading more strict but the level of knowledge and preparation for exams is on an entirely different level. Just the idea of making hundred-page outlines would be enough to scare many business school candidates away.

I'm actually quite familiar with law school and the importance of 1L grades, the lack of motivation for upper years once they have secured their biglaw jobs, clerkships...etc.

Despite not having attended business school yet, I don't think it's a stretch to say that the primary determinant of the difficulty of your business school career is the courseload you choose and the difficulty of the specific professors. I don't think it's entirely different from undergrad, where the same person can get a 3.6 while taking graduate level classes or a 4.0 cruising through introductory humanities classes. All I'm saying is that the difficulty is what you make of it.

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