<p>That A+ at Brown would also be bumped to an A.</p>
<p>so cornell offers a+ as a grade?</p>
<p>it's offered, but usually only to the top few ... if at all. </p>
<p>For instance, I've only had 1 ILR professor that even offered an A+, the rest stayed with A's as the top.</p>
<p>I haven't encoutered anybody who is cut throat yet. There is a tonnn of reading and you definitely need to keep up so it's more of competing with urself. But I've definitely done hw together in groups, helped people out, and gotten help. Everyone here is great</p>
<p>WashU is, especially their sciences department from what I've heard.</p>
<p>I'd just like to emphasize that Caltech is the complete opposite of cut throat. It's even considered taboo to discuss your GPA's with other students for the most part. From what I've seen here, and !heard! about Cornell and other schools, cut-throat competition happens when someone has a lot to gain from being ranked higher than others for GPA. The only cut throat people I've heard of at Caltech are the several premeds who need really high GPA's for med school and whatnot. I imagine that would somewhat explain JHU because many people from that school apply to grad/med school. </p>
<p>In regards to Cornell, the guy I interviewed with said it wasn't very cut-throat, though he was in the hotel school. Your best bet is probably to email Cornell alum and students and ask them, I'm sure if you asked admissions they'd give you someone to talk to. But I guess that's also why you posted on this board.</p>
<p>obviously this depends on your major. my friend in AEM says its really easy and no one really cares about competition cuz so many classes have median grades of A- or even A.</p>
<p>now if youre a premed taking classes where medians are more like B-, it's obviously going to be more cutthroat. sad part is, it has to be that way. good competitors get into med schools. that doesn't necessarily mean theyre cutthroat... you just have a lot of pressure to do better than others, something that can't be controlled by the students</p>
<p>Funployee - what is Wash U? Cutthroat or not cutthroat?</p>
<p>I think he implied that their science department is cutthroat. Or maybe I just misconstrued the whole thing. :)</p>
<p>ILR is not cut-throat. I recently graduated, and had never seen anyone do anything to sabotage another student, and it's small enough so you typically have friends in any given ILR class who would be happy to exchange notes, or let you copy them if you couldn't make a given day. </p>
<p>I think those of us intending to go to law school, however, were <em>competitive</em>, in that they tried to beat the curve, but not to the extent that to do so would include bringing someone else down! Indeed, my impression is that those who graduated with honors were typically the ones who had routinized study groups, and were friends with the others at the top of the class.</p>
<p>cornell is not cut throat at all.. there is a lot of work and grades aren't that easy to obtain depending on your major of course but people are willing to help.</p>
<p>If you're a premed it's going to be cutthroat. There's no point of trying to sugarcoat the truth. It’s probably going to be easier if you’re in liberal arts.</p>