<p>Is it pretty much the unweighted high school equivalent? Where an A, no matter how low, is a 4?</p>
<p>Because I think I was that this wasn't the case and that an A- would have a different GPA value than an A+, but I can't be 100% sure on that.</p>
<p>So can anyone verify? Thanks much.</p>
<p>A+ = 4.0
A = 4.0
A-=3.7
B+=3.3
B=3.0
… the pattern repeats</p>
<p>What’s the divison between the percentages that differentiates an A+ to an A to an A-, etc.?</p>
<p>Is it something like:</p>
<p>100-97 = A+
96-93 = A
92-90 - A-</p>
<p>There isn’t even a simple way to guess because each professor does it differently.</p>
<p>yea pretty much.</p>
<p>Fiesta, you’ll quickly realize grading in college is wayyyy different than high school. In reality 80-90% of your classes are going to be curved, which essentially means getting an A isn’t just about getting 90 or 95% or whatever, it’s more about how much better you score versus the mean/median. To put it simply, getting a B in college is probably harder than getting an A in high school in almost every case.</p>
<p>A in high school as in what kind of class? Regular? AP?</p>
<p>And curving does sound bad? Is it like Stanford’s where there’s only a set amount of A’s in one class and whatnot?</p>
<p>I mean, even compared to AP classes, I would say berkeley classes are significantly more challenging particularly in the technical fields (eng/sci/few other fields).</p>
<p>The biggest shock in curving is not really that nobody gets A’s, it’s more like the fact you’re surrounded with hundreds of (mostly) bright and talented students who excelled in high school and the majority of them are not going to get A’s. I really have no idea about how Stanford curves, but I’m surprised you mentioned them because I heard it they have significant grade inflation (many more A’s percentage-wise compared to Cal) whereas Berkeley can be notorious in some departments (mostly engineering) for a relatively small percentage of A’s.</p>
<p>I’m going to major in Political Economy of Industrial Societies, so it’s mostly history, political science, and the stuff there.</p>
<p>Will that be hard to get A’s in?</p>
<p>My friend says that Stanford has a quota of people who can get A’s, and after that, nobody else can get an A. so like maybe the top 15 students can get and A while the rest fail and whatnot.</p>
<p>A lot of required classes are going to overlap with the Economics department. PEIS requires Econ 1/2, Econ 100A/101A, and Econ 100B/101B</p>
<p>Econ majors need to take these classes too and need to get good grades b/c Econ is a capped major that depends on GPA. Also Haas applicants/students may also be taking some of these econ classes and also really want an A. For Econ 100B my GSI graded all the exams and problem sets for my section. This mean every GSI and section had a different curve. Ending up in a section with lots of smart high-achievers means getting an A will be hard.</p>
<p>The same thing goes for the PEIS reqs for Stats 2, 20, or 21. Lots of Haas students and econ majors will be competing for A’s in these classes. Some professors set caps on the # of A’s (Prof Purves maybe?) while others do not.</p>