<p>I just want to make sure i am getting all the facts right b/c stan's GI policy seems like a draw back to me. Not that i am saying i won't work hard to be in the top percent of the class, but wouldn't it make more sense to just get the grade you earn....</p>
<p>mainly worried if i get like an 87 in a class which ends up being the bottom 10% of the class which would get me a failing grade....</p>
<p>Does GI seem more of a benefit to anyone who attends stanford? b/c i am torn btw stan and mit(where you get a's if you deserve it)</p>
<p>You post confuses me. If you got a 87 in a class with grade inflation if anything you would have at least a B+, possibly an A- or A. Grade inflation means you get higher than the grade that corresponds to your raw score. If you have a 93%+ in a class I don't think you will ever get less than an A... I've certainly never heard of that happening.</p>
<p>Indeed. I don't believe there is any grade deflation or curving down. If anything, you will get a better grade than the percentage you earned. For example, receiving 55% on a hard chem midterm might actually work out to be a B because of the scaling. Profs make tests so hard so that they can actually get a grade distribution and see who really understood the material well, instead of making tests exactly like problem sets and thereby allowing everyone to get 100%.</p>
<p>no but i had the grading concept right before, that is before my friend told me otherwise...i guess my MIT friend is filling my head with lies so i wont go to stanford...lol</p>
<p>Typical Chem 35 test:
Avg: 65
Standard deviation: 20</p>
<p>If you got an 85 or above, you'll end up with some flavor of A. Believe me, classes with really hard tests make you glad that a 60 is a B. I've taken a class before that did the numerical system like high school...it sucked. I worked my butt off, scored the top in three out of 4 exams, and still only scored a A-. And there's nowhere near as much grade inflation here as compared to other schools. An A+ is reeeally rare.</p>