<p>I am considering transferring to USC. I am wondering how grading is done at USC. Is there grade deflation or grade inflation or no grading curve at all?
I am a history major currently attending UCLA</p>
<p>I would recommend staying at UCLA since you are majoring in history, UCLA department is tops in nation, USC also has grade deflation, considered to be school with second highest grade deflation after Boston University. Stay at UCLA, although it has a quarter grading system.</p>
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<p>Where'd you get that information?</p>
<p>there's definitely no grade inflation here, but I wouldn't go so far as to say it's grade-deflation at all. grading can be tough at times but usually it's not unfair.</p>
<p>plus, you'll be in history where, well, it's supposedly easier to get good grades. I had a friend who graduated this spring with a history major who had a really good gpa.</p>
<p>so don't listen to the above, if you really want to come to usc, then come to usc.</p>
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<p>not sure why someone from IU is commenting on grading at USC...</p>
<p>I've never heard of this grade deflation - and you can't speak for the entire university because grading is handled differently between the various schools.</p>
<p>History falls in the college of arts and letters - which has no pre-defined curve. Therefor, the professor has flexibility in awarding grades.</p>
<p>The only school that I know of with a set policy is Marshall (business). For most classes, the professor determines whether they want to use a curve or not.</p>
<p>if you read earlier posts, in other threads, of the one who posted the comment about grade deflation, then i think that you can conclude "consider the source".</p>
<p>and professors have wide discretion to assign grades; one professor once mentioned to me that he once gave everyone in a class an A; and while he did have to write a letter stating that everyone really did deserve an A, he was allowed to do so.</p>
<p>When we were researching schools we read a lot about grade deflation at one of the universities where my daughter was accepted (Wake Forest), but I never came across that phrase anywhere with regards to USC, either online or in books.</p>
<p>Not saying it's not true, just that it didn't turn up in our research over the last year, for whatever it's worth.</p>