<p>My grades will probably be ready at the end of the week...I already know in my French Poetry class I got an A....my other classes are up in the air though.</p>
<p>Maybe a 4.0 again. Possibly may get a B on one course if I don't do well enough on the final.</p>
<p>My predictions: 5 A's and 1 B. I know I already have 4 A's.
Not too shabby in my opinion.</p>
<p>Possible withdraw from the school. Guess I better start looking around for some enlistment offices...</p>
<p>I got my Organic Chem II grade... C-, pretty disappointing. I am hoping for A in Cultural Anthropology, A/A- in History of Modern Philosophy and Experimental Zoology...</p>
<p>Probably a 3.6 or 3.8</p>
<p>idk prob like a 2.6</p>
<p>they really give out to many A's, its almost ridiculous.</p>
<p>They should have a HIll grading system in schools, where lets say if more than a few people get A's. then the grading spectrum should be compressed. so Instead of anything over a 90 being an A, if to many get A's then the grading system needs to be shifted, so now we could say a 97 will get you an A and a 90 a B. This is what alot of my teachers do.</p>
<p>But then again i go to a public school so im not buying good grades,.</p>
<p>I'm hoping for a 3.0, big improvement over 2.66 though mad chill</p>
<p>UB-Vinny,</p>
<p>Paying to go to private school does not equate to buying your grades. Most private schools are very competitive and schools (especially the prestigious ones) generally try to avoid getting a rep for grade inflation like the plague.</p>
<p>actually the research proves you wrong</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gradeinflation.com/%5B/url%5D">http://www.gradeinflation.com/</a></p>
<p>1st graph. and other research states many students choose private schools due to them recieving much higher grades.</p>
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<p>... well they aren't doing a very good job of it, for the most part.</p>
<p>yea my friend just picked a private over a public cuz its well known it gives out easy grades so he can get into med school.</p>
<p>there are so many lurking factors that you guys can't really compare public vs private. Lets say theres' a calc 1 class. Public: 150 kids in the class with a big lecture type situation--no personal interaction with the teacher. Private: 30 kids in the class, with lots of interaction. maybe kids who've had academic advantages the whole way through and went to private HS's where the teaching style is similar so there's not a whole lot of an adjustment period, are more likely to be at private colleges. If you get 95% of the points for your semester, you should get an A even if 1/2 of your class did too. It should be expected that a higher percent would do realy well with smaller class sizes than with big ones.</p>
<p>Many private schools have grade deflation. Look at Cornell as a primary example.</p>
<p>hopkins, colgate, cornell, rochester and many others all practice grade deflation</p>
<p>IMO if half the class gets 95% of the points, then the class wasn't hard enough.</p>
<p>side note: are there really calc classes with 100+ kids? ... wow.</p>
<p>ive never heard of that, i in a public school and my classes are only 15, 30 and 60 students depending on class.</p>
<p>in the UC's at least there are rediculously large class sizes...</p>
<p>ive heard 700 in one class at Penn State</p>
<p>not math, maybe a general chem but not math</p>