<p>^^arbiter - was that a term away spent abroad or at another school in the US?</p>
<p>Abroad, but at a program made up mostly of students from high end private schools (I was visiting). That wasn’t entirely fair of me though- NU’s Japanese program is simply more rigorous than most in the country.</p>
<p>@NUraider: Considering I transferred out of Medill after my first year with a 4.0 and absolutely hated my journalism courses (read: no motivation to complete anything more than half-assed), I would say journalism is not “rigorous” as much as prestigious and well-known, as you said.</p>
<p>Journalism and music schools have ridiculous grade inflation.</p>
<p>And School of Communications (esp. Communications Studies)</p>
<p>My husbands firm hires from Medill and says they are the best, most qualified employees out there; grade inflation or not.</p>
<p>@amtc: what firm is that? marketing/pr? news?</p>
<p>I’m not telling but I will say that at this point it’s kind of a conglomerate or maybe a communications conglomerate. Even though the media division really makes no money, it still hires a lot of college grads each year and pays a very fair price. I’ll ask my husband if they recruit directly on campus and I’ll pass that on. The real point of my comment was that grade inflation or not, Medill produces some very qualified, employable students.</p>
<p>If you’re a good journalist, you’re a good journalist. Professors have no reason to go out of their way to give out lower grades just for the sake of doing it. What matters is when these students go out into the world, they have what it takes to be the best of the best.</p>
<p>^I think they should give more As and Bs in orgo and bio. NU has a pretty large pool of med school applicants (~300), esp. for its size; the med school acceptance rate is over 80% and of those admits, the average MCAT score is 34, which is pretty high for an average. Some of those students really don’t deserve Cs. :)</p>
<p>It’s funny, I JUST had a conversation with my College Adviser who said basically that “Med Schools know that NU doesn’t teach for pre-meds. A B+ here is as good as an A a lot of other places.” He also referenced the very high MCAT scores.</p>
<p>(I was asking about pre-med stuff for my own erudition concerning my friend.)</p>
<p>I’m just saying that if you’re a journalism major by the time your a junior you must be good at it because you have to go through so much random stuff and assignments, I’d find it pretty challenging, but then again I’m no journalist, but whatever Medill does, it does it well because tons of people wanna be ‘Medillionaires’ to transfer in and there are plenty of drop outs because it’s too hard (obviously if you got A’s I’m not referring to you). </p>
<p>Regarding pre-med classes. It is frustrating to get below average in a class full of smart people and get a B- or worse, but then again, when you get A’s it feels awesome. just my two cents. And I’d echo what arbiter said about admissions, although 4.0 students in pre-med from NU do exist and they just mess everything up, although usually they dont do anything on campus and have no life/friends, and that’s not even what it’s about…</p>