[wil421]

>The stress in the US system is very different. Indian schools (basically the oldschool british system I grew up with in boarding school) are hard but not stressful. Performance metrics are clear and students know what they have to do. US schools have become strange minefields of nebulous collage prep. Grades are given, everyone gets As.

Can you please point out the schools giving away A’s? My high school and the colleges I attended were certainly not that way. Not even remotely. I’m going to get a masters soon and I want to go to this type of school.

[sandworm101]

Who said anything about given away As? I said that having As was a given, not that it was easy. I do know of schools where 80+% of graduates have strait-As on government exams. They earn those through constant prep. My former highschool is now like this but nobody complains because almost all of their students go to university. (There is always that one kid each year who has mandatory military service to attend in his home country.)

[mrguyorama]

Indeed. My education was no free ride!