<p>I’d have to say it’s doubtful that a class curve would ignore the high achievers. </p>
<p>D2 has a similar complaint in her upper level math courses. There are a handful of kids who, when they show up in her class, she just groans because she knows they are going to ace everything and make it harder for everyone else to do well on the curve. (And it’s a fairly small school so they tend to show up in her math classes regularly.)</p>
<p>D1 (also a math major) was at a much bigger school, but she also found that there are just some people who are brilliant at math and when they end up in your class, it’s (as she put it) “just gonna suck”.</p>
<p>Tell your D to hang in there. (BTW, both girls disliked their theoretical proof-based classes, but then again they’re both in applied math.)</p>