<p>Are grades supposed to be deflated here, especially in the econ department? I'm struggling to get As/A-s here and the majority of my grades are Bs/B+s.</p>
<p>As are reserved for the higher-level geniuses who look at problems and just understand them. In my opinion, the sort of people who routinely get As are the sorts of people who learn to speak, read, and write economics (or mathematics, physics… what-have-you) the way most people learn a language.</p>
<p>When you learn it really well, you don’t translate or reason your way from one language to another. You just see the meaning immediately. That’s the sort of understanding that gets an A grade.</p>
<p>A 3.0 is a quite good GPA. Be proud of it.</p>
<p>From what I’ve seen on CTECs, As are mostly common only in some Distros and such, but when I look at higher courses, people rate it as a lot harder. Lets be honest, NU’s one of the best colleges in the nation, As are going to be hard to get.</p>
<p>Micro/Macro and some other frosh/soph courses generally curve to the B. Higher level econ courses hand out much greater proportions of A/A-'s. If you’re doing Bs/B+'s getting started, you’re doing just fine, probably somewhat above average among a group of very bright high achievers. Your GPA will come up. Median graduating GPAs for the school as a whole are probably in the 3.4 range these days.</p>
<p>damn that sucks for us, since most ivies like Yale and Columbia inflate it well</p>
<p>I hate having my grades accurately reflect what I do rather than having them artificially increased :-P</p>