[cardcrimson]

anecdotal evidence, including personal experience:

true to some extent, but at a 20-40 ranked school, you have lots of company when you can't figure out a difficult problem set. at stanford, yale, harvard, half the class gets it no problem. so the professors can  and do make the tests and problem sets at stanford harder (in some classes, not all).

Was in many a classes at Stanford where a majority of the class struggled with problem sets. We'd all have our little study groups and we'd call each other for help. One class was so tough, the midterm means were in the teens, high score in the twenties. New professor, Stanford grad and PhD, wild guy; an absolutely brilliant guy who had no idea how smart he was compared to normal Stanford students. . . .

[cardcrimson]

anecdotal evidence, including personal experience:

true to some extent, but at a 20-40 ranked school, you have lots of company when you can't figure out a difficult problem set. at stanford, yale, harvard, half the class gets it no problem. so the professors can  and do make the tests and problem sets at stanford harder (in some classes, not all).

Was in many a classes at Stanford where a majority of the class struggled with problem sets. We'd all have our little study groups and we'd call each other for help. One class was so tough, the midterm means were in the teens, high score in the twenties. New professor, Stanford grad and PhD, wild guy; an absolutely brilliant guy who had no idea how smart he was compared to normal Stanford students. . . .