" +bodangles It is a bad grade because I want to go to grad school"
So you think that to get into grad school, you need 100% As? And that A-s will rule you out of grad school?
You do realize that top universities consider more than grades when admitting graduate students? That someone with a 3.7 GPA and a great aptitude for research would be taken over someone with a 4.0 GPA and nothing to show in terms of research?
So:
- pursue every undergraduate opportunity you can in your field
- get summer internships in your field
- contact top researchers to see if they would consider an unpaid intern to help them in the summer
(if you mean medical or similar professional school as opposed to grad school, shadow a practitioner and volunteer at the appropriate place, for as many years as possible including summers and part-time in the school year)
A- vs. A is silly talk.
And that professors get their jollies from giving bad grades means your college must have some pretty sadistic professors.
I have taught classes where no one got an A, but no one failed either. I have taught classes with 50% As and Bs. Other classes where everyone got a C+, C, or C-. When it comes down to it, you had to do more to get an A, and you didn’t. If you don’t know what that was, you have to spend more time contacting the professor and preparing for exams and other work.