<p>Hey, I was just curious as to how the transition from CC to UW was? Did you find you were well prepared, or had to study even more, etc/</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Not much change except that easy classes with curves suck.</p>
<p>Thanks for the fast reply.</p>
<p>How does that bell curve work? Is it just the average grade=C and anything above is a A? Or do you mind explaining?</p>
<p>I was planning on transferring straight into Biochem and I’d have to take pchem right off the bat, and was hoping my cc prepared me enough for UW.</p>
<p>I’m not entirely sure, but I think they just set the median at a certain point (3.1-3 at Foster) and then they have to “fit” the whole class in this bell curve. So a half will get below the median and a half above it. </p>
<p>It sucks because if the class is doing great overall, they still have to fit everybody into this bell curve and that’s how you end up with a 3.4 for 94.5%.</p>
<p>In terms of preparation - don’t worry. If you did fine in your CC you will do fine at the UW. Just work hard and that’s it.</p>
<p>Another big change for me has been that we have to work on group projects quite often. I think it’s great because you get to know people and it’s also fun. But I’m not sure if every department is like this.</p>
<p>I just recently graduated at UW.
I had rtransferred from a CC</p>
<p>CC gpa: 3.92
UW gpa: 3.82 (departmental: 3.87)</p>
<p>The only thing I personally noticed is that I went from being the smartest person in a class to being just the top group of the smartest people</p>
<p>I had the opposite experience as seatac. I had more group projects (by far) at CC.</p>