nemo2001

the same it does most normal places except HS's that foolishly and artificially inflate GPA's over a 4.0 scale...

A = 4.0
A - = 3.667
B+ = 3.333
B = 3.0
B- = 2.667
C = 2.0
C- = 1.667
D = 1.0
F = 0

and yes ND does take your GPA to three decimal places w/o rounding. Unless this has changed in the last year or so (and I totally missed it)...which I highly doubt

FightingIrish01

My high schools was more the straight out number school- no gpa and no letters. Thus, number speakig, what is the range of an 'A' or '4.0'?? Is that like a 93-100? Plus, do courses, especially, science classes have a generous curve or grade inflation at all?

irish68178

It depends on the class. A lot of classes use the 100-93 for an A and then 92-90 for an A-. However, many of my upper-level major courses (300 and higher) use a 100-95 for an A and 94-90 for a A- scale. I also do have one class that is 100-96 for an A! A's are attainable but you have to nearly be perfect in some classes, at least in my major.

ghippleh

Im a soph engineering major and I can honestly say there are no days off from homework. My roommate is in the college of business and hardly does anything at all. So it really depends on your major. In my case, i get an avg of 5 hrs a sleep a night and the rest of time im pretty much doing work.

nemo2001

ghippleh - I'm impressed if you are doing hw every night...I know plenty of engineers who are out drinking half of the week. Then again I know of two who only go to class M, W, F and never have a T, H class - of course they set their schedule that way. They wanted to be able to have an off day to do hw, but then again they still spend a huge amount of time playing NCAA football or other video games.

Believe me, some semesters I did more work from my A&L program then I did back when I was in College of Science. Other semesters as I look back I definitely spent more time doing work when I was a Biochem major. I think it is safe to say it depends on the major and the semester to some degree. More important is how efficient and how good of memory you have. I know one girl who never studies except the night before, she almost aced a couple of orgo exams that year....

nemo2001

if you're looking for grade inflation in College of Science...good luck, keep looking and let me know if you find any. While professors don't want to fail you, and most have very flexible and long office hours - they still have no problems in failing you if you don't meet the standard they set. I mentioned my orgo prof's policies in a previous post. Some teachers have curved before, never had a curve that resulted in more than a few point gain though. It is inevitable that almost always some few people do really well no matter what the "average" is.

ghippleh

good point nemo. some consider civil engineering a major, i dont. perhaps those of whom u speak will be inspecting bridges when they graduate.