<p>current frosh at emory. unfortunately, i've been screwed over by a few classes that graded pretty harshly (on the border of unfairly i would say for one of them), so now i have to take a few classes to pad up my gpa. i'm not happy about doing this, and i'd rather take challenging classes that i enjoy, but I need to get into the b-school, and a low gpa won't cut it for admissions there. any suggestions/advice?</p>
<p>Sorry to interrupt…but may I ask what are the classes that graded harshly on you? just curious…I just got admitted by Emory :)</p>
<p>Sorry I gotta wait until I get 15 posts to message you…I don’t want to post the class/teacher on this board.</p>
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<p>Just ask around campus instead of this site. The easy classes are all well-known (and all full by now).</p>
<p>women’s studies. no tests, just participation.</p>
<p>lol I was gonna ask if it was chem but if you’re bschool bound then probably not.</p>
<p>Don’t take easy classes; take medium classes that you’re interested in. The “easy” ones are really boring and easy to underestimate, and then you will get a mediocre grade (A-/B+) in an “easy” class.</p>
<p>Are men allowed to take women’s study classes?</p>
<p>doryphorus: That actually happened to me in French 101. I had convinced myself that it had been a while since I did French (though I did it in middle and high school; I stopped at level 3 or 4 my sophomore year of HS), so felt that I should start over. I probably should have taken the 200-level one.</p>
<p>Just from personal experience, the intro econ courses are pretty easy in general. Also, if you’ve already taken calculus in high school, then Life Science Calc (I believe it’s Math 115/116) should be no problem either. Of course, everyone in there is pre-med, so seeing as though you want to get into the b-school, that probably wouldn’t be much help.</p>
<p>I’ve also found that depending on the class you take, some of the IDS classes or Comparative Lit. classes can be pretty easy to do well in too.</p>
<p>But doesn’t the easiness of the class depend on the teachers?</p>
<p>Educational studies classes are notorious GPA padders…some premeds end up double majoring in it unknowingly since they just end up taking so many of those courses. I don’t really know anything about them but I hear about them.</p>
<p>I mean in some cases the easiness of the class depends on the teacher, but for other classes the material is just pretty easy by itself or there is very little, if any, work outside of class. </p>
<p>The writing classes would most likely depend on the professor. For example, two of my friends took IDS 201 classes (but they were on different topics with different professor) and one had to write just 3 short essays and one “long” essay (6-8 pages) whereas the other had to write like 6 short essays, weekly response papers, and a long essay (10-12 pages).</p>
<p>But for courses like Econ 101 and 112, the material itself is pretty easy so even if you get a lousy teacher, you can still learn it on your own.</p>
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<p>For the purposes of the OP, this might not be a viable option. Since the Division of Educational Studies is closing, I think all courses are by permission of the department only.</p>