<p>I was reading a lot of information on a lot of other website and one of the drawbacks that people have said is that the University of Richmond has the hardest grading professors in the country. They acknowledged that the professors were nice, but there was absolutely 0 grade inflaton, and there were no easy classses at Richmond at all. In fact many said that unless you spend hours and hours studying even for a simple gen ed class(that you can get at any university like ECON-201), you get an A in the class. I was just wondering have much truth there is to that. Is it only for certain majors like business where you have to deal with the hard grading. I want to take it with a grain of salt, but I am not sure. I personally, I'm not going slack off, but I don't to exactly work my tail off for an A and get a B or B- or a C+. If anyone here could at least try to compare Richmond's grading to anothers schools grading that would be very helpful.</p>
<p>I don’t have any background at other schools, so I can’t speak comparatively, but I felt like I got what I earned at UR and felt others did as well. I am a member of Mensa, scored a 33 on my ACT and typically don’t have difficulties in picking up on concepts quickly. I received (and earned) a 2.6 by the time I graduated. I played around way too much, blew off classes and studying. There were a couple of courses that I really enjoyed and put forth the effort and got an A pretty easily in those courses. A good friend of mine isn’t the brightest bulb, but he’s a very diligent worker and will graduate with a 3.6 from the business school this spring (he previously failed out of another university, then went into the military for a few years). My wife put forth a lot of effort in the business school as well, and she graduated with a 3.7. </p>
<p>If you’re willing to put forth the effort to get the grade, there shouldn’t be a course you can’t do well in, but there are some very tough professors, but they are also very fair. You will learn and retain the information, rather than just learning it for the grade.</p>
<p>You do get the grade you earn at Richmond, and it’s usually not an ‘A for effort’ sort of grade. When midterms and finals come around, most Richmond students work their butts off. In most classes, a B is considered quite good. An A is excellent. You can do all the work really well and still get a B if you’re not quite ‘there’, in a humanities class, say. It’s fair. You have to be an active participant in your education to succeed; no sailing through. But if you are an active participant and you grasp the subject well and communicate your thoughts clearly, you will do very well. I highly recommend going to every class (okay, almost every class, and by almost, I mean you can miss 2 or 3. Maybe.), participating actively in every class, turning in every ounce of homework you are assigned, reading…if not everything, enough to be able to contribute meaningfully to the class.</p>
<p>And just because it’s a gen ed, that doesn’t mean it’ll be easy. Some are, don’t get me wrong, but some expect you to be at the top of your game, whether it’s a 101 intro or not.</p>
<p>How are the intro math/science courses?</p>
<p>Minoafrau, they are pretty difficult. However, there are intro science classes for non-majors which are an easier way to satisfy your gen ed requirement. With math, there are also a couple of classes for non-majors, but I’ve heard that they are no easier (but since these are mostly taken by people who hate math, I guess no one would think that they are easy).</p>
<p>I took a Comp Sci course (Minds and Machines) to fulfill my math requirement. I thought it was easy. Apparently a lot of other people didn’t. It was a lot of fun though and covered some diverse and interesting material, regardless of how well you did.</p>