<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I was wondering how the grading system is at Berkeley.
Sometimes schools have grade inflation/deflation and sometimes it's just hard to maintain a good GPA.
I was wondering how Berkeley stands. Is it really hard to maintain a good GPA?
Of course I know that if you work hard, you can maintain a good gpa and that if you slack, you can't. but just in general?</p>
<p>Lots of deflation here. Lots of curves in weeder courses.</p>
<p>It’s easy enough if you try. It’s easy to get a B if you just do all the assignments. Getting an A means a little more work.</p>
<p>Depends on what you mean by “good” GPA.</p>
<p>You can look around [National</a> Trends in Grade Inflation, American Colleges and Universities](<a href=“http://www.gradeinflation.com%5DNational”>http://www.gradeinflation.com) and [University</a> of California: StatFinder](<a href=“http://statfinder.ucop.edu%5DUniversity”>http://statfinder.ucop.edu) to find average grades (which most recently were in the B to B+ range in undergraduate courses, though individual courses may have averages different from the overall average).</p>
<p>You could look at the link above, but to put it succinctly from an engineering student, it is not hard to get B’s and B+'s as long as do what you are told to do (which could be hard, i guess), but getting an A will require a lot more work and ingenuity and some luck, so good luck.</p>
<p>How is the grade inflation/deflation in humanities courses? How difficult is it to obtain a competitive GPA for a top grad school?</p>
<p>im interested in going into Haas. does anyone know how people’s gpas are at haas?</p>