Eh, my college girlfriend majored in Chemistry while I was CS and Math. P. Chem was certainly a huge challenge, but I never got the sense that she was smarter than me, just maybe more determined in certain ways and better at memorizing shit. She got a 4.0 and was valedictorian, but she dropped any elective classes if they looked like they would not result in an "A" for her--I especially remember her dropping Calc II, for example. So she got her 4.0 by successfully gaming the system, whereas I never got overly focused on grades as the ultimate marker of successful learning.
Btw, I have done quite well in life, not sure where she ended up; probably chasing some other kind of "grade" these days, lol.
Btw, I have done quite well in life, not sure where she ended up; probably chasing some other kind of "grade" these days, lol.