<p>How is grade inflation at Rochester. Are the number of A's limited? </p>
<p>I have heard that in some schools with a high achieving student body, the profs limit the number of high grades, while at other schools, where most of the students in any given class are accustomed to getting all A's all the time, high grades are common.</p>
<p>truly depends on the professor and the class. many bio and intro math classes tend to be curved due to the difficulty of the class itself. Other professors don't curve at all, while some implement the curve in the grading. For example some of my english professors grade lighter on papers when it comes to grammatical errors and focus more on the logical coherence of the paper.
So you usually get what you deserve for most classes. There really isn't a bell curve capping the number of As nor massive inflation so everyone gets them.</p>
<p>Depends on the class.</p>
<p>So far I have not run into grade inflation in any of my courses. The general gist of it goes like this:</p>
<p>Getting an A is requires a fair amount of work in intro courses, very difficult in upper level courses unless you really know your stuff and work hard.</p>
<p>A-s are most common for people who work hard but havetrouble grasping the material.</p>
<p>Bs are fairly easy to get.</p>
<p>Cs and Below - you're not going to class and you're not doing your work.</p>
<p>I speak from my own experience and for a few of my friends.</p>
<p>My courses were:</p>
<p>BIO 112 - Intro Biology for AP Credit Students - A came with some work, but not too hard
CHM 171Q - Research Oriented Organic Chemistry for Freshmen with AP Chem credit (i placed out of gen chem) Getting an A here is damn near impossible
MTH 161 - Calculus IA (mid-level difficulty track, not honors not lower level), A here was feasible but I suck at calc. got an A-, worked hard though.
HIS 296 - Tough History course, grade conists of only 3 papers so each paper worth 30%. spent average of 3 days on each paper (i put in alot of effort), got an A on each. </p>
<p>So you dont get an A all the time here and high grades are not common if you consider a "high grade" as an A. Bs are very common but anything below it is rare.
Hope this helps, somewhat.</p>
<p>AWAKIEN: Nice piece on your experience with grades at Rochester. What people have to careful about IMO are schools like Cornell which has the reputation of being the easiest Ivy to get into but the hardest to get grades at. Who needs that?</p>