<p>My D is an incoming first year and is interested in McIntire, so she knows she needs to get good grades in the 1st 2 years. She got several APs that got her placed in 3000-level courses. We are debating whether to give up some AP credits in order to get lower level classes to make sure that she will adjust well and get good grades.
Thoughts and advice, please.</p>
<p>She could just take 1000 level electives?? Like Anthropology, there is no AP for that??</p>
<p>Like getting into UVa as a whole, getting into McIntire isn’t all about grades. The difficulty of classes students take is also considered. Additionally, note that grading in higher level classes in quite a few departments is easier than lower level ones. I took several 3 and 4000 level classes my first year and made out fine.</p>
<p>Check the course forum to see more specific info on grade distributions. If your D is still very concerned about grades, she can pick electives where nearly all the students get A’s.</p>
<p>Where can we find the electives in which most students receive all A’s. Are those just regular classes?</p>
<p>It’s actually, in my experience, just as difficult to get high grades in 1000-level lecture classes as in 3000-level seminars.</p>
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<p>Just search the course forum. You can do this for major classes too, not just extras. For example, I AP’d out of Intro Econ, and was deciding between 301 and 311. I saw that the distribution for 311 looked like this:
[url=<a href=“http://thecourseforum.com/grades.php?class_teacherID=200&id=1]theCourseForum”>http://thecourseforum.com/grades.php?class_teacherID=200&id=1]theCourseForum</a> | Grades<a href=“hope%20that%20link%20works”>/url</a>
And decided to take it.</p>
<p>I would recommend looking up every class you consider taking. It may take some time up front, but you will thank yourself a month or two into the semester.</p>