<p>I just wanted to hear your opinion. Do you think Northeastern has a grade inflation or deflation?</p>
<p>Northeastern typically uses a grade inflation, especially for sciences. The amount depends on the class. I had one class that made the average of the class a B+, and one class that made the average be C (it wasn’t really deflation, it was just sort of how the grades already were).</p>
<p>(As compared to like Princeton or, from what I’ve heard, BU, who use grade deflation)</p>
<p>Please take any comments solely as an opinion. One person’s experience in a few classes certainly can’t categorize an entire university’s philosophy on grading.</p>
<p>Well yeah, that’s pretty much given. I had HUGE inflation for a Organic Chemistry for Chemistry Majors class because it was harder than normal organic chemistr (or so they said) and the average of the class was about a 65 on each test. But clearly even for other organic chemistry classes, the grading could be completely different. I think officially its up to the department about how classes are curved, but I personally think a lot of it is up to the professors and what they want to do.</p>
<p>I was just saying that I’ve noticed that people will spend the entire semester saying how badly they are doing on each test, and then end up doing fine in the class grade-wise.</p>
<p>It really depends. I have a friend at a top engineering school and he was always a lot smarter than me in high school and my grades are significantly better than his. As chemE’s we both took the same class at our two different schools using the same textbook. He sent me one of his tests that his professor posted online and it was impossible. I got an easy A in my class while he maybe got a B.</p>
<p>Like neuchimie said though, it depends on who you have. I just took thermodynamics and transport where there was no scaling. Yet in organic chemistry II, I had a 60 going into the final, got an 88 (65 average) and ended up getting a solid A. Yet the professors for next semester for thermodynamics II and transport II have historically had averages in the low 40s and, obviously, scaled.</p>
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