<p>At</a> least 8 percent CC, SEAS get straight As</p>
<p>At least 8 percent of Columbias 5,934 undergraduates received straight As or A-pluses last semester, according to a document leaked to Spectator on Wednesday.</p>
<p>and also: </p>
<p>Students</a>, profs talk grade inflation</p>
<p>"Students and professors were split over Columbias grading policies on Thursday, following the leak of a document that showed that about one in 12 Columbia undergraduates earned at least a 4.0 last semester."</p>
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<p>For those with direct knowledge of Columbia's GPA system and curriculum, I have a few questions I was wondering anyone could help with:</p>
<p>1) How easy is it to obtain a high GPA in CU compared to HS, and compared to other Ivies?
2) Do graduate school admissions have a bias against Columbia's undergrad students because of CU's inflation, as compared to perhaps MIT/Princeton?
3) Will CU continue its GPA inflation despite this leak of data?</p>
<p>1) if you do the minimal work you probably will get a b+, if you do a bit more you get into the a-range. some teachers are against giving a’s in the humanities unless it is truly superb, but if you’re smart and good at math/sci/econ, you can easily go perfect through your classes.</p>
<p>2) no. i’m guessing you mean professional schools and not graduate school. columbia continues to have one of the highest percentage of students in top professional schools, and folks at prelaw/premed have told me no as well.</p>
<p>3) sure. i mean 8% getting straight a’s sounds actually rather reasonable. columbia college’s (at least) mean gpa is somewhere between a 3.3-3.4 (it was in my day and i hear it is still around there), which means you are between a b+ and an a-. or half the class is averaging over a b+, so it certainly follows that a good number of folks will have higher grades.</p>
<p>my problem with the spectator article is that they assume that this hasn’t been the standard grading schema - when it has been like this for some time.</p>
<p>Thank you sir.</p>
<p>EDIT: And yes, I meant professional schools. My mistake on that part.</p>
<p>^ lol no need for “sir” I think?</p>
<p>but yeah I don’t understand why everyone is making a big deal out of 8 percent all A’s??? Isn’t that complete reasonable? I mean even if it said 20% all A’s I wouldn’t even be that surprised…is all a’s in college suppose to be a super small elite class, like 5% or somethign??</p>
<p>any numbers on the grade ranges in seas, specifically operations research?</p>