<p>What's the grading scale like at Georgetown? Is it known to be a place where a good grade is hard to come by?</p>
<p>Depends on the class, but largely speaking, if you do your work and keep up, you can get a B no problem. A is hard to do here, you have to work your tail off (at least from my experience), but again it really depends on the class…</p>
<p>But in some cases like Econ and all MSB classes (beg. Fall 09), there is a mandatory curve, so it will be very tough to get an A/A-, because you competing with your peers for the 25% (Econ) and 30% (MSB) A/A-.</p>
<p>^ Great. I’m going to be in MSB next year… I wish it would just be if you got an A, you got an A, the end.</p>
<p>Well… that’s arguable, I mean how do you even define an A? Some professors already implement a soft curve (i.e. they will only give roughly 30% As, and generally curve up), but I can tell you that getting curved down sucks (which I have been in Business Law)…</p>
<p>But the idea is to fight grade inflation and make the students more competitive… in theory… we’ll see how it goes in practice…</p>
<p>Rabar, get pumped for the new building! It’s AWESOME!!!</p>
<p>Grading standards vary pretty substantially between schools and departments as at any school as well as between full-time faculty and adjuncts. According to the 2007 Intellectual Life Report, grades overall breakdown as follows:</p>
<p>A - 54.8%
B - 37.1%
C - 6.6/%
D - 1.0%
F - .5%</p>
<p>The language department gives out the most As - 67% while the social sciences, including the SFS give out the fewest 47%.</p>
<p>Granted, as mentioned in other posts, Gtown is actively working to minimize grade inflation through stricter department grading guidelines and implementing harder curves in some areas.</p>
<p>If you want more info on the stats, you can view the report at <a href=“http://executivefaculty.georgetown.edu/Documents/Intellectual%20Life%202007/Intellectual%20Life%20Report%202007.pdf[/url]”>http://executivefaculty.georgetown.edu/Documents/Intellectual%20Life%202007/Intellectual%20Life%20Report%202007.pdf</a></p>
<p>^^ That building’s gonna be sick!</p>
<p>^ Well those numbers don’t seem too bad. I thought they’d be worse</p>
<p>Well, the MSB is officially going to be the hardest school to get As (statistically speaking) since it’s capped at 30% A/A-s… I personally think its a good thing (maybe not for my GPA), but for the school to become more competitive…</p>
<p>In terms of the grade distribution, I’d like to see the same data for some comparable schools to see if it is consistent across the board…</p>
<p>The econ curve sounds scary but in my experience, it will NEVER hurt you; trust me you will love that there’s a curve. I got a 54% on my micro final (50% of grade) and ended up with a B in the class, the percentages were that bad.</p>