<p>But isn’t that at least partially because of how Stanford divides orgo. between spring and summer (as in orgo. 1 in Spring, and orgo. 2 in Fall) as opposed to Fall/Spring. My orgo. prof. at Emory told me about that, because apparently we were considering it. Needless to see that he didn’t agree with that method. I don’t know if they do that simply because Stanford orgo. is far more difficult than the other schools’. Honestly, I bet many schools in the top 20 can give any Ivy or top 10 a run for the money when describing the difficulty of orgo. sections. We have some notorious sections at Emory for example.</p>
<p>Oh, I should revise that statement about our graduating GPA. Normally our graduating GPA is a flat 3.3, or a mid-high 3.2 (an old Emory report broke it down by gender, I was about a 3.2?(low hundredth’s place) for males and 3.34 for females. This by no means indicates there was no grade inflation over the years, and I certainly would not call it low grade inflation, even though there are those science majors here that claim deflation, I disagree (and I am one) because lecture component averages in intro chem/bio/physics (lets include orgo.) courses are normally between D to C+. Admittedly, the only curved courses among these is orgo, but I don’t really think intro. should be curved. To give a breakdown, intro. bio averages are usually C/C+, intro. non-calc. physics C-/C, calc. physics has a range depending on year, D/C+, gen. chem. depends on section D/C, organic chemistry D/C- (before curving). These are probably normal course averages at top schools. I don’t know why some here consider it deflation. I am right that this is normal at other schools, right?</p>