alt Hacker NewsDo you see this as a self management issue or a course intensity issue.
My anecdotal experience with the University of California system was that course load was a step down from Highschool university prep (which wasn't that bad). Classes were easier than their AP counterparts, and most students who struggled had an issue with attending morning classes after late nights socializing.
My impression from family going through this process now is that the high school prep has only gotten more intense, so what is the gap? Has college gotten significantly harder in the last 20 years?
Which did you find to be the case?
I've worked in colleges for 2 decades. It's rarely purely academic issues that cause bad grades, in my experience.
It's everything else with self regulation. Where most college prep goes wrong is at home, in not allowing appropriate agency for the child to make decisions before college. When you go from having to ask to go to the bathroom to being entirely independent in 2 months, bad shit happens.
This lesson has held true everywhere I've worked, from small junior colleges to D1 state schools.
Subsequently, college has gotten harder, but so has k-12, so proportionately, no it's not more difficult now