<p>I always heard anything less than an A in grad school is failing. </p>
<p>I just started grad school and it looks like my grades won't be that great unless there are some insane curves at the end. </p>
<p>I had a 4.0 in undergrad, so this is sort of hard to handle...</p>
<p>I’ve never heard that anything less than A is failing. Cs are pretty bad, though.</p>
<p>I don’t know if it depends from discipline to discipline. I’ve completed all my coursework requirements, and I’ve gotten all A’s and a single A-. Though it’s not bad, but that A- sticks out like a thorn…</p>
<p>I’m in engineering. </p>
<p>After a test earlier this week, I wouldn’t be suprised if I fail a class…</p>
<p>Check with your program’s graduate student requirements. Many consider anything less than a B+ cause for academic concern. Some require that the course be repeated if the student gets a B or lower. And some allow one B or B+ as long as the rest of the grades are As. It all depends. </p>
<p>Is this a PhD or Master’s program? Master’s programs tend to be a little more lenient.</p>
<p>generally speaking, grad school gives easier grades than undergrad</p>
<p>(such as they will almost never fail you)</p>
<p>however it is purely depends on individual professor on how does he/she give away As</p>
<p>I’m in engineering phd program, the midterm i just took, class average is 45/100, so you can see obviously the grades will be curved, so the final letter grade all depends on the professor, i also know grad school give more things like oral final exam and take home exams… i mean if you are taking a grad school course, your goal should no longer be about the grades, it should be about the knowledge you are leaning to help your research work, so grades really isnt important, For example if you are in a phd program, there is no more “certain grades” you need to maintain for scholarship purposes, instructors know that too, that’s also why they will not try to make the exam “reasonable”, too hard or too easy? don’t matter, just curve it at the end</p>
<p>finally, whoever said “anything less than A is failing”, you don’t need to talk to him anymore</p>
<p>thecardinal, judging from your name, we go to the same engineering school but i am in structural… tomorrow is my first midterm and i am little bit concerned because i don’t know how hard the test is going to be but i know that it is NOT going to be curved. so that means i can only make very few mistakes and still get an A. making it sound very hard to get an A. it isn’t an easy class either. I had a 4.0 in undergrad also but the intensity of grad school just scares me. I never had that kind of stress before. especially when everyone here looks like they are 4.0 students too. well i guess i should start studying instead of worrying about it.</p>
<p>Hey moommoombaba. Yeah, I’m at Stanford too. I just finished up all my midterms this week. The material on the exams wasn’t too bad, but I ran out of time on all of them, which is frustrating. If you go on courserank, you can see what kind of grades are typically given out in your classes. I noticed that traditional graduate courses tend to have much higher grades than courses with a mix of undergrad and graduate students. </p>
<p>What bothers me the most is that I’m giving it all my effort and I still probably won’t get a perfect GPA. The fast pace of the quarter system sure doesn’t help either.</p>
<p>So… I got my midterms back. It looks like my GPA is going to be even lower than I expected. </p>
<p>Maybe I shouldn’t even worry about my GPA?</p>
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<p>I hear from a lot of more senior graduate students “oh don’t worry about your GPA”, but then I look at their CV’s and they have a 3.8 
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<p>I should have gone to an Ivy :-/</p>
<p>Why can’t you relax if you don’t have a 4.0? People do just fine without them!</p>
<p>because they are too used to straight acing everything</p>
<p>who cares about grades in grad school?</p>
<p>I’ve got a 3.1 right now and I know a few other people that have lower. It all depends on the school as to what’s expected of you.</p>