<p>I've heard that grade inflation is pretty rampant at UT. I was just wondering if anyone had some real facts and could personally attest to this. </p>
<p>Any UT upperclassmen who will graduate with ~4.0?</p>
<p>How much effort did it take, what were your grades like in HS?</p>
<p>A friend informed me that UT doesn't have the +/- system. This makes it much easier to graduate with a coveted 4.0 than at many universities.</p>
<p>I currently have a 4.0, and what I found is to get this grade:
-USE PICK A PROF: It's seriously the best investment you'll ever make
-Start studying for your tests TWO weeks prior to the exam, and you'll do fine.</p>
<p>what's a +/- system?</p>
<p>A school without a +/- system simply has A, B, C, D, F. You can get a 90 and still receive a 4.0 for that class; at other universities a 90 is typically considered an A- and you get less credit - not sure but more like 3.6-3.7. This makes it more difficult to get a 4.0; even an A is only like a 3.8 and an A+ is 4.0</p>
<p>so it is easy to have a high GPA?</p>
<p>yes</p>
<p>10 char</p>
<p>What is Pick a Prof?</p>
<p>Pick-A-Prof is a website where students at a particular university can post reviews of professors. There's a fee to use it at UT, but I think it's only about $5/semester. I used it when it was free and stopped using it after they started charging. I didn't think it was THAT great. I just asked around for recommendations.</p>
<p>do you get to pick ur professors or are they assigned to u</p>
<p>You get to choose. But as a freshman, it is really hard to find the best teachers because you register last.</p>
<p>but won't u be taking freshman classes, so u will only be competing with the freshmen for the professors</p>
<p>depends on the class. getting into psy 301 was easy for me, but classes like gov 310, cms 306m, and even phl 304 were hard to get into.</p>
<p>is it true that going to a later orientation ridiuclousyl screws you?</p>
<p>i dont understand how i could not get the classes i want, it sounds like i could be wasting hours and thousands of dollars on a class i dont need if the situation is as bad as people make it sound</p>
<p>I went to the second to last orientation and ended up with the following classes after the last.</p>
<p>Psy 301
Gov 310L (bad teacher)
M 408d (no teacher)
Antropology
Classic Civilization of Greeks or something.</p>
<p>After the add/drop period I woke up really early on my assigned day and managed to get all the classes and teachers I wanted. You just have to be really tactfull and sly when it comes to registration.</p>
<p>I'm graduating in May with a 3.93. It wasn't that hard. I would say it's certainly easy to make an A at UT. I have only had a few classes where showing up for class and doing the assignments/reading wasn't enough to virtually guarantee an A.</p>
<p>UTSenior, what else can you tell us about UT and grades?</p>
<p>Well, what would you like to know? ;) The colleges of natural sciences and engineering are much more difficult--I'm speaking as a communications/liberal arts student, so I have a different perspective than some might. But the nice thing about grades at UT is that there is no competition between students--there's no curve, so professors can give as many A's as they want.</p>
<p>When you say there's no curve, you mean no bell-curve, right?</p>
<p>Or do you mean there is no curve on tests at all?</p>
<p>I'll be a liberal arts student, or eventually a business student if I get a high enough GPA (:)).</p>
<p>What does it matter if you have a 4.0 as opposed to a 2.0??? In the grand scheme of life if you have your degree (That BS or BA) in whatever you major in them you should have no problems. You need to be able to speak and write well but most companies in the real world don't ask for your transcript. They just want to know if you have your degree. And by the way UT is no piece of cake. You have to work at it to do well.</p>