<p>does anyone know how difficult it is to maintain a 3.5 GPA from your freshman year at cornell? (not at engineering)</p>
<p>also what is an A, A-, B+, B on the 4.0 scale at cornell?</p>
<p>well i don’t know the difficulty, it all depends on your major. but I know the scale is:</p>
<p>A+: 4.3
A: 4.0
A-: 3.7
B+: 3.3
B: 3.0</p>
<p>hows hbhs for human eco?</p>
<p>It really depends on which classes you take. I don’t know anything about the grading difficulty in HumEc HBHS, but I’m sure someone else here will be able to tell you. But I personally do not know very many people with GPAs above 3.5 (maybe ten to fifteen percent of them do?), though most of my friends are either in Arts and Sciences or Engineering. Your grades will vary tremendously by your major and also your study habits, intelligence, and personality/motivation.</p>
<p>it’s easy to get a solid B…but an A requires SOOO MUCH MORE effort…</p>
<p>when you say sooo much more effort, what do you mean lol?
do ppl suck up to professors or sumthing?
or r they good test takers</p>
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<p>some do one or the other. i just mean that a B is usually where the median/avg grade is. an A = better than average (some are just smarter but i’d say most study/make more effort than the B students)</p>
<p>depends on the major and different courses. you can google the median grade reports. not sure about hbhs but for straight up bio major, the median for the first semester of intro bio and intro chem is a B-, most of the other core bio major classes are B’s, biochem is B+, and upper level is usually B+/A-/A. Freshman writing seminars usually seem to have a median of around an A- (some A and B+), intro stats are B+ or above also. the means don’t necessarily overlap with medians. for example, for neurobiology (222) the class is curved to a B- mean, but the median is always a B.</p>