<p>Come on sakky, you know why Cal isn’t able to do it. You probably know more about Berkeley than most of these posters. You’re just picking on Cal for ****s and giggles.</p>
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<p>People have this weird idea that because Stanford is grade-inflated, it’s easy. It is not. Professors spend 10 weeks beating the crap out of you. It seems like we have midterms right after the term starts, and then more midterms, and then bam! finals. Throughout that time, there are problem sets, essays, projects, programming assignments, etc. and often, you get back assignments/quizzes/midterms with poor grades on it. So you work harder, and by the end of the quarter, you think you’re definitely going to get a C, and then you get your grades, finding that you got a B instead. The inflation doesn’t really happen until the end of the class. In the meantime, you’re so damned scared that you’re not going to do well that you work hard and master the material. Then Stanford rewards you with grade inflation. Much better than curving the class to a B- like many classes at Cal do. The point is, students at Stanford are naturally very high-achievers and are not going to slack because they think “oh well at the end of class it’ll be curved in my favor” (those curves are really unpredictable too). So since we never know just how inflated the curve will make all our grades, we err on the safe side and work hard. Because the students are smart and work hard on their own, Stanford doesn’t see any point in punishing them with a low grade.</p>
<p>Andrew Luck’s 3.51 in an engineering is impressive, especially given that he’s also the best player on the team and should’ve won the Heisman.</p>