Berkeley Really That Difficult?

<p>coe students, on average, have the highest scores (including verbal and writing)</p>

<p>andrewtdx-
I am also an American Studies major (American Studies pride!) but Im a transfer student. Who is a good professor? I have to ask for recommendations from 2 American Studies professors within a month of getting to campus, so who will be really easy to approach? Also, out of curiousity, what is your emphasis? Thanks.</p>

<p>Easymack63:</p>

<p>My emphasis is Popular Culture and Global Consumerism.
Good professors are: Brilliant, Palmer, Moran, Vizenor, and Hutson. </p>

<p>They teach excellent courses, just check the student scheduling thing and sign up for one of the classes offered by them. Won't regret it.</p>

<p>ok thanks alot</p>

<p>lol lol
conor you got owned</p>

<p>Sakky is a quite a ferocious breed of woman. What a warrior.</p>

<p>Just one department, you say, conor? Need I repeat the words of Professor Jasper Rine? I guess I do, so here goes:</p>

<p>"Rine described the shock he felt during his three years on the Committee on Teaching from roughly 1998 to 2000 when he reviewed teaching records for large undergraduate classes, with more than 100 students, in which no one got less than an A-, year after year. At the time, Rine asked Associate Registrar Walter Wong to assemble some data looking at upper division and lower division grading in the physical sciences, biological sciences, social sciences, humanities and engineering, so that he could distinguish trends from anecdotal exceptions. The results were clear. "The physical sciences and engineering had rigorous grading standards roughly in line with the recommendations from 1976," stated Rine, "while the humanities and social sciences in many classes had all but given up on grades below a B, and in many courses below an A-..."</p>

<p><a href="http://ls.berkeley.edu/new/05/grades.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://ls.berkeley.edu/new/05/grades.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>I have also emailed Professor Rine and asked him to point me to the data where he got his findings. I don't expect him to reply back to me soon (if at all), because I'm sure he is a very busy man, but if he does, I will dutifully post his response here, for I am sure his answer will be most illuminating. He seems to have a lot of insight into the different grading schemes used in the different Berkeley departments.</p>

<p>sakky, </p>

<p>can you summarize what the article says in lamen terms. Do calc 1A students get high/lower grades than those who take the Calc 16 series? Do people who take subject A get lower/higher grades than those who imediatelly take writing 1A and !b? It seems to me, from what the article says, that there is no pattern between grades received and level of class.</p>

<p><em>sigh</em></p>

<p>I'm saying Math 1A and 1B are damn competitive. So is 53 and 54. You're up against a lot of top notch engineering students, so if you're not superb, the curves won't help you that much.</p>

<p>Look at the curve here:</p>

<p><a href="http://math.berkeley.edu/%7Eogus/Math_54/webgrades/midterm1.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://math.berkeley.edu/~ogus/Math_54/webgrades/midterm1.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>It's not that great or friendly I would say. I myself got raped in that midterm. I like the Physics curves.</p>

<p>Sakky, I think Prof. Rine has some more important things to deal with as of late, like his slolen laptop with data worth millions of dollars and the tirade he unleased on his class claiming that the F.B.I would be busting down their door a la minority report within the hour.</p>

<p>Crazyoreo858, I'll summarize it as follows. Technical classes tend to be graded harder than nontechnical classes. It's really as simple and as complicated as that.</p>

<p>I don't want to put a damper on this illuminating conversation, but is there anway we can stay away from the anti-semitism?</p>

<p>Nice post rooster. Gentlemanscholar got owned.</p>

<p>Or better yet, Go Carninals. It really doesn't matter to me as long as we can band together to quell the belligerently xenophobic spirit of the masses. </p>

<p>Go Bearnals :0)</p>

<p>I'm back from the dead.</p>

<p>oh la la! I got dibs with the Enquirer!</p>

<p>...</p>

<p>Right on Gentleman scholar!</p>

<p>Let's keep the ad hominem down, please...</p>

<p>Republicans are just as "welcome" at Cal as Democrats are, in fact, if not more so because their presence promotes diversity of thought. Race alone diversity does not make. By mistreating the conservatives on campus, being abusive and heckling them, mocking and shunning them you only give pundits like Sean Hannity more fuel to call you intolerant and bigoted. Seriously, stop it. Do NOT be close-minded. You are here to learn.</p>

<p>Now, this is a thread on Berkeley's difficulty. Let's keep it that way.</p>

<p>Moderators: I recommend that you close this thread because it has clearly degenerated into a flame war and has nothing to do with the original post.</p>

<p>what are you talking about? clearly the middle-east conflict relates to the difficulty at berkeley!</p>