<p>A+'s? Try taking classes with regular bell-curve distributions. I don't even think we have that grade here...never heard of anyone getting one.</p>
<p>Professors here have to write a letter to the registrar if they want to give an A+. Most don't want to go through that bother.</p>
<p>Result? Almost no A+s.</p>
<p>You can still get an A+ with a normal bell curve distribution. You just have to have the highest grade in the course...</p>
<p>Completely depends on the school, and NO, not all state schools are the same. I've studied at a couple institutions. At least at the better Canadian Unis, an A barely exists (only one of my friends has gotten a solid A this year)....when i went to a certain U.S. state school, I NEVER got lower than an A-, and mostly got A's while doing almost no work.</p>
<p>BTW, a 4.0 from a hippie liberal arts school in bong making means absolutely nothing to anyone.</p>
<p>I thought is was pretty easy to get an A or A+ in lower devision courses where the class size was ~500. The mean on the midterms was ~45, and my grade would be 80-90. I never understood how the mean could be so low.</p>
<p>Upper division courses were a bit harder, because a class of 20 students is less likely to be curved.</p>
<p>We don't have A+s either, which really sucks since we do have A-s, and I had a couple classes both semesters where I got over 100 in the class and if I had been able to get an A+, it would have balanced the A-s I got.</p>
<p>I've found it easier to get A+s in colleges.</p>
<p>*college</p>
<p>omg</p>