<p>A = 4.0
A- = ?
B+ = ?
B = ?
B- = ?
C+ = ?
C = ?
C- = ?
D+ = ?
D = ?
D- = ?
I've heard that grades are all based on bell curves. Is this true?</p>
<p>A = 4.0
A- = 3.7
B+ = 3.3
B = 3.0
B- = 2.7
C+ = 2.3
C = 2.0
C- = 1.7
D+ = 1.3
D = 1.0
D- = 0.7</p>
<p>Most lower division math and science classes are graded on bell curves.</p>
<p>Sometimes classes that are at the beginning of the semester not to be graded on a scale are put on a scale for the benefit of the students.</p>
<p>wow, that makes it really hard to get a a 3.5 then huh?</p>
<p>unless college classes are as easy as high school</p>
<p>Depends on what kind of classes you take. Generally, the grades in science classes are harder to get, and college classes are rarely as easy as high school classes.</p>
<p>the campus average GPA is 3.25. It varies from major to major too. A 3.5 is somewhere around the top third to the top quarter.</p>
<p>Grad schools know that Berkeley grades harder and adjust accordingly.</p>
<p>If you work fairly hard, you can usually get a 3.5 in the humanities, even philosophy and English (two serious and hard departments).</p>
<p>And ease and grading are not necessarily related. You'll be taking fewer subjects than you did in high school (probably), for a different amount of time, you have to get yourself to class, yourself to work, yourself to do papers and turn them in on time. It's different. Each class varies. You might have a much easier time with one subject and a lot of difficultly with another, even within the general fields (science, humanities, social science). Different is the best way to put it.</p>
<p>How much graduate schools adjust is dubious. Law and medical schools don't seem to care much, and business and academic graduate schools tend to care about other factors (academic graduate schools care about grades to a great extent, but not like law or med schools).</p>
<p>i know for a fact, that berkeley's law school takes undergrad gpa, and adds points if your coming from a top school, or subtracts points if your coming from a state school or something less prestigious.</p>
<p>usually .2 or .3 points on the gpa.</p>
<p>Well, is that practice currently in use? Certainly there is reason to believe that they did it in the past, but I haven't seen anything in the very recent past to prove it. <em>shrug</em> What they did (and perhaps still do, if they're using the same system) is adjust GPA based on LSAT score. Berkeley was in the "zero adjustment" group. Schools with very high average LSAT scores had points added, schools with very low average LSAT scores points subtracted. Also, Boalt is one school. I haven't seen much about other schools doing any actual adjustement. Are you aware of any?</p>
<p>Wow, so a 3.88 GPA at Berkeley is equivalent to a 40 MCAT? as in, it’s like 99.6th percentile??? No wonder berkeley has such a low acceptance rate for medical school</p>