Jhu

[May999]

Is the Jhumur premed gpa curved?

[May999]

I mean is the Jhu premed gpa curved?

[tk21769]

http://e-catalog.jhu.edu/undergrad-students/academic-policies/grading/
(I don’t see anything about adjusting premed GPAs.)

http://www.jhunewsletter.com/2010/11/11/low-average-gpa-at-hopkins-suggests-grade-deflation-89024/

Lubberts also commented that the grade deflation itself is largely a result of professors choosing not to curve grades in favor of the students.

“I feel like at other places, for example, they’d curve an 80 to an 85, but here they often just choose not to,” Lubberts said. “Sometimes I get the impression that professors feel like they can’t give out too many high grades.”

The impression of grade deflation that students such as Mason and Lubberts have could be just that. Professor Todd Hufnagel of the Material Sciences department refuted the idea that professors feel pressured to abide by a quota system in terms of grade distribution.

“I never grade my courses on a curve,” Hufnagel said. “And I have never in my 14 years of teaching had anyone try to influence the grades I give out.”

(That’s one professor they’re quoting. Perhaps some other professors grade differently.)

[saif235]

(Current JHU student)

Short answer: no

Long answer:

1. Premed GPA isn’t a thing. Med schools use your transcript to calculate your overall GPA and your STEM GPA.
2. Each class (at any school) is curved at the discretion of the professor. Some apply bell curves, some normalize, many don’t curve at all, and some have their own system that makes sense to them.
3. If by curve you meant weighting (like with high school AP classes), I’ve never heard of a college that does that. It may happen somewhere, but med schools usually calculate your GPA based on your transcript so any weighting applied by your school won’t affect what the med school sees.