<p>So I heard that at UCLA, for many classes, they only give A's to the top 2%. So does that mean everyone else gets C? I'm so worried for that because I might transfer to another school and that will look so bad. I know UCLA is so prestigious, and hence A's will be difficult - but 2%!!! (Everyone's already presumably smart anyway) </p>
<p>I'm a fine arts major by the way, and am looking to take mostly art history courses and any easy GE like musicology (I heard) I'd obviously avoid any classes with future engineers :P </p>
<p>It’s not quite 2%, but in most south campus (science) classes, it’s at most 20% with A’s, while for north campus (Humanities etc.) it tends to be a bit higher, and it’s almost impossible to fail your classes.</p>
<p>My experience is that almost every class has at least 60% at B- or better. A good rule of thumb is that getting in the top 25% will get you an A- or better. Top 10% will usually guarantee you an A.</p>
<p>There are minimums. A lot of classes are far more generous.</p>
<p>It’s pretty hard to get an A average, but from what I hear so far (been there 2 qtrs) most students get at least a B in most classes.</p>
<p>Now, however, there are courses designed to bust your GPA. Any X100 level course is like that for example. Especially since they’re designed to weed people out of upper division course work. </p>
<p>Expect to finish with around a 3.6-3.5 if you’re a good, and I mean GOOD student. You may have been getting As up the yin yang in HS or CC, but you won’t here.</p>
<p>It’s not hard to find easy GEs, there’s an old CC thread titled “Easy GE list” and you can also use bruinwalk.com to look up reviews of professors and old grade distributions for some of their classes. For those classes, getting A’s is no problem. I don’t know for sure, but I wouldn’t think that fine arts is too difficult of a major relative to the other majors at this school. If you truly enjoy fine arts, then you shouldn’t have a problem pulling off mostly A’s and B’s.</p>
<p>You should be able to get A’s and B’s extremely easily as a fine arts major. I don’t know anyone that took a writing based/social science/non-science class where they were struggling to get just a C. I’m sure it might happen here or there, but you’re definitely doing something wrong in that case and need to rethink your life choices. The social science classes I took were probably deemed the hardest of social science classes (upper division philosophy with name faculty and hard political science classes with intensive reading) and you can still pretty much just pay attention in class and be the bottom of the class and come out with a B-. They just don’t give out C’s very much unless you’re just not understanding the material as if it’s in another language. </p>
<p>So the point of the story is, as a social science major you should be able to get A’s and B’s in 100% of your classes. I’m sure you want more A’s than B’s though so that will be much more difficult to do (I’m not trying to say north campus is a very easy 4.0, what I’m trying to say is north campus is an EXTREMELY easy at the LEAST 3.0). So of course 100% of your classes should fall between the A to B- range. Nothing should really be lower - if it is think how it happened and fix it, it shouldn’t be because of course difficulty.</p>
<p>tl;dr: Every major is difficult to come out with a 3.7+ in, not just sciences. It is almost impossible to come out with under a 3.0 in social science, but decently common in south campus majors.</p>
<p>Yup, totally screwed. Max 10% get A’s (not including A-'s)in my science and math classes (96% for the class was once scaled down to an A-) so that the professor could give only 4 A’s in a class of 80, and this was an intro physics over the summer. Can’t imagine it’s any higher in engineering.</p>
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