<p>With preenroll coming up, I need the page with the link to the median grade reports that the Cornell registrar releases. For some reason I can't find it via google.</p>
<p>It is hard to find (maybe intentional?). It's a necessity to look at when choosing courses :-)</p>
<p>Gracias.</p>
<p>Very valuable tool in choosing what courses to take (my advisor is almost as good:) (j/k)</p>
<p>yup, i bookmarked it freshman year and has been invaluable for the most part (which class i really need to study for) unfortunately for me, i tend to like to take classes that have never been offered before...but no regrets so far except math class. median grades can be deceiving. that is all i'll say. ratemyprofessors is great too...i usually use that before i use the median grades</p>
<p>OMG those are the median grades?? thats INSANE TO me a HUGE shock..i thought 95% of them would be in teh C range...where as i think 0 % are...somebody must tell me what is a A, B, C and etc in terms of percentages when u get ur tests back??? thats so scary for me averages are all B and above!! ahh. sombody explain pls</p>
<p>wow... I agree martrinez... Those grades are a lot higher than I expected... But then we have to remember what kinda school this is, and think that everyone is like you as far as their grades... Maybe that will make you feel better? sorry if it didn't. :/</p>
<p>Keep in mind, the median grades are deceptively high. If you're premed or engineering, many of your medians will be B-/B (which is much tougher to achieve than you think). Median GPA for freshman is 3.0. The majority of you guys will experience a 0.8-0.9 GPA drop from your HS GPA's.</p>
<p>Also, keep in mind, Cornell's grading system is scaled to make it relatively easy to get the mean (or a B) but extremely difficult to get an A.</p>
<p>In high school, the means on most of your uncurved tests were probably around 85%. You'd get your 94% (9% above the mean) and get an A. On the last orgo prelim at Cornell, the mean was 65% so you can get a 65 to get a B. However, one std. dev was 16% which meant that you had to get 16% higher just to get a very low A. I'm actually doing better in relation to my Cornell peers than I did in HS against my HS peers but getting lower grades.</p>
<p>Wow......hotel school grades are much lower that most others.</p>
<p>lol, norcalguy i laugh when i hear that in high school the means were 85, here in ontario not even physed /easiest classes u can think of get means of 85%, easy classes means like physed are mid 70s, where as MOST classses are no more than 75!!!! see ontario/canadian edu is VERY different from cornell.. i like the easy B hard A system tho..all i want it B</p>
<p>so when the median grade for bio 101 is a B- for a class of 700, that means that 350 people get a B- or LOWER. </p>
<p>however, keep in mind that outside of the hard sciences, many professors don't grade on a curve (out of my 8 classes this semester, only orgo and bio grade on a curve).</p>
<p>As a premed student who needs A's, I really don't like the system. I remember my first Multivariable Calc. prelim. The mean was a 56 but the professor said we needed to get an 80 just to get an A-! This meant some who got a 50 got a B-. Someone who got a 60 got a B. Someone who got a 75 got a B+. See what I mean about how easy it is to get B's and how difficult to get A's?</p>
<p>yep exactly...but i dont see why MOST ppl would want even A's when u dont need em..i mean its not high school, ur no longer tyring to get high marks to get into university...butfor u i kinda understand cuz its premed(wutever that really is) i have an idea wut it is but not really, lol. i know med is tough...right.? .lol so ye for u it sucks..but id be satisfied if i get my diploma, as an average kid (cuz its IVY LEAgue and ill be an athlete and in engineering physics which is not easy) and id be THRILLED to be able to get into one or moer good grad school if i so choose (for grad school, do ur freshmen and sophomore marks count much if at all?)</p>
<p>Martinez, be careful because this is IVY LEAGUE, so the "average student" is still going to be working his/her @$$ off...</p>
<p>so does this mean that basically everyone gets thru and graduates?? or does this mean that , like canada, a lot dont make it.. (especially with ur curves...dont teh curves gaurantee failures??)</p>
<p>shoot, I want premed too, because I can't really imagine my career pathway other than medicine/health. Now I'm faced with U of Arizona premed and Cornell premed, both of which I'm gonna do biological sciences. If I get 4.0 in UA and 3.0 in CU, which looks better for med school? I heard about med schools look solely at numbers with round 1 admissions, and 3.0 from Cornell would just screen me out, where I think a 3.8-4.0 from UA will keep me alive in the game. what do you guys think?</p>
<p>Matrinez, many employers will look at you GPA on your resume when deciding whether or not to interview you. This is more true for the more competitive internships and jobs. This is not to say that people with a 3.0 dont get interviews or job offers, but that it is much easier to get that interview with a higher GPA, so dont understimate it.</p>
<p>really, u need a GPA too especially on resume? wow thats strange...here its just degree is degree wether u get 100% or min. grade...although obviously u do get like deans lists and stuff but REALLY that isnt important..and i mean, come on, isnt a CORNELL ENGINEERING IVY LEAUGE EDUCATION ENOUGH?? now they want the ones with the high marks..sheesh, lol...maybe i wont want to work for those companies (although NASA sounds cool)</p>
<p>Especially for on campus recruiting, you are competing against all your peers for the same position. While a good GPA can mean you get plenty of interviews, if you present yourself poorly or have poor communication skills, your GPA will mean nothing. I do know a few people that have 4.0's and they had probably 20 interviews for internships this semester. And myself, with only a 3.45 have gotten just 6 interviews. GPA is not the end all, but it certainly is important. Usually if it is at least a 3.0 or above you should put it on your college resume. If its below that you should leave it off. Career services and some writing classes will teach you how to do a proper resume.</p>
<p>which u take thesse classes for extra help, or part of degree??? also, i assume ur engineering? what year/major? and these interviews...ppl from companies are just coming to campus and calling on u or how does this all work?</p>