<p>Where to read about grade scales for commonly applied to schools?
Like the 90-100, 94-100 stuff.</p>
<p>Searching colleges individually is a bit tedious unless you have only a few in mind, and some colleges don't list that information explicitly; you would have to have word from mouth like "most teachers in the college use 90-100 but in so-and-so department they don't" or "most teachers in the college use 94-100 but there's this professor that...</p>
<p>It does matter. Its where you'll be for 4 years and the grading difficulty will affect the stress you feel. </p>
<p>Where can we read about grade scales for commonly applied to schools? Commonly applied to ones in terms of size and ones that people just like applying to or hope to go to.
Like the 90-100, 94-100 stuff.</p>
<p>My experience has been that professors all set their own grading scales. I’m in one class right now that’s on a 950 point scale. That’s why you don’t see the information posted by the institutions - it’s not an institutional (or even departmental) decision, it’s a professorial decision.</p>
<p>Less important than the grading scale itself is going to be grade deflation. Princeton is notorious for it, while other private institutions are going through periods of rampant grade inflation. </p>
<p>Remember too that in college, grading isn’t aligned to a particular scale but rather to a curve. How demanding this curve is will depend on the sorts of classes you take (ie orgo, a weeding-out class for pre-med, is not going to be easy) as well as how well you perform against the kids in your class. For one class, your percent out of a hundred may be your actual grade, because the test is so easy almost no one misses a question. For other tests, getting a quarter of the questions right may get you the highest grade in the class.</p>
<p>In short, this isn’t a question that can be answered. Grading will be dependent on the class, as well as the particularly college’s standards (ie Princeton, where only a certain percentage of people in a class can get A’s).</p>
<p>Not all college grading is on a curve. And I’m willing to be corrected if I’m wrong, but it would surprise me enormously if Princeton really had an institutional policy that only a certain percentage of people in a class can get an A. That sounds much more like urban legend than reality to me. If you have a reference, I’d love to see it.</p>
<p>“The undergraduate student body president, Connor Diemand-Yauman, a senior from Chesterland, Ohio, said: “I had complaints from students who said that their professors handed back exams and told them, ‘I wanted to give 10 of you A’s, but because of the policy, I could only give five A’s.’ When students hear that, an alarm goes off.””</p>
<p>What would be a way to at least approximate difficulty/time commitment/grades and that kind of stuff quickly without searching for students who have been to colleges and asking by word of mouth?</p>
<p>It’s different for every teacher. Same with plus/minus. Some classes use plus/minus and some don’t. The only real way for you to find out is to look on the school’s website, find out a few classes you’re going to take, and then look up that course webpage. It sounds like a lot of work, but the information is, for the most part, out there.</p>