<p>If any current/past (recent) students could shine some light on this that’d be great. </p>
<p>I’m curious as to the average degree of difficulty at UCD. I’ve scoured their website but I’m unable to find the average GPA by major. Specifically, I’m curious as to the difficulty of the CS (L&S) major. I understand there’s a lot of math and calculus involved, but I’ve taken some of those courses so I don’t anticipate that being too difficult.</p>
<p>How about the G.Es, such as basic English, Bio, Chem, Physics, etc.? Is it extremely difficult to get A’s? Are most classes curved or not?</p>
<p>Compared to the other UC's, even UCLA and UCB. UCD's average GPA is pretty low.
I've been wondering about why for a while. Could anyone explain why?</p>
<p>That's a good question. One of my friends at Davis said that classes are more difficult than people anticipate them to be. I don't know what the average GPA is though.</p>
<p>CONCLUSION
The recent estimates of students in academic difficulty provided by the UCOP reveal that the UC system generally has a consistent percent of freshmen and transfer students who leave the university in academic difficulty. In addition, the data indicate that the experience on the Davis campus closely parallels the systemwide averages.</p>
<p>In all honestly, don't worry. If you work hard, do you will do well.</p>
<p>What does work hard mean?
Start studying ~4 days prior to any midterms/quizzes, go to office hours, have the teacher know who you are (even if you ditch a few times it's ok).</p>
<p>I was at Davis for 2 years, and in all that time I received 2 B+'s, except for my last quarter in which I received 2 B+s in that quarter alone cuz I didn't care anymore (cuz I was transferring to another university).</p>
<p>Perhaps there are some "unfair" classes where the teacher is a douche and will give you a B instead of an A or something, but if you do the proper research on Ratemyprofessors and just ask about some of the professors with some of your friends, there is no reason that any hardworking person should not graduate with a 3.8+.</p>
<p>My current school has negative curves, I've never seen anything like that at UC Davis. A 96% at my current uni could mean a A- or a B+! There are a lot of people at UC Davis that mess up that first year, a lot of people that just want to graduate. Just have some self discipline and you will graduate with honors.</p>
<p>If you don't slack off (like many students do) you'll do fine in classes. Remember, for all you science types, you don't have to do well, you just have to do better than the rest of the class (thank youuuuu curve!)</p>