<p>Your parents must be ashamed</p>
<p>In college, it doesn’t necessarily matter how hard or how long you study. For some subjects, the material will come easy. Other subjects won’t. And math is a subject where you can easily make a mistake if you’re not careful enough. </p>
<p>I’m sure there were students in your class with a C+ who were furious they didn’t get a B. Or students with an A- who were heartbroken not to get an A. The curve has to stop somewhere, or else everyone would get A’s in everything.</p>
<p>If you go to a “top university,” a 4.0 is an improbable outcome for the vast majority of students, unless it has some major grade inflation. I know that’s often difficult for people who had 4.0s in high school to come to terms with at first, but don’t worry, you’ll get things in perspective soon. </p>
<p>The goal of college shouldn’t be to earn a certain GPA, it should be to gain the requisite knowledge to make your degree actually mean something. If something significant requires a certain GPA, it won’t be 4.0, don’t worry.</p>
<p>If you didn’t get an A, you didn’t do A work. Sometimes that seems arbitrary, with the size of a curve, but a curve itself is a luxury. It’s like saying that someone who hasn’t fully mastered the material should be given a grade indicating that they did, simply because the professor wants to give such a grade to at least some students. Be grateful for a curve; never expect one. Unless the professor is incompetent and didn’t teach the appropriate/relevant material, the responsibility for attaining a certain grade is your own. A grade of B+, it should be noted, is nothing to be upset about.</p>
<p>Good luck in your future classes. Maybe developing better work/study habits in math classes will help.</p>