<p>Overall grades for the semester really depend on the professor and the class. In most of my classes, the profs only give approximate letter grades for individual tests, then determine the actual cutoffs at the end of the term by looking at the overall distribution – apparently overall grades frequently fall into easily distinguishable peaks, and one peak is labeled “A”, etc. You definitely don’t have to be a standard dev above on every test to get an A.</p>
<p>But perhaps I am a bad person to be asking this… I definitely get more Bs than As! :)</p>
<p>And sr6622 – triple-majors aren’t allowed anymore, because… well, actually I don’t really know why not. Probably just because they required an obscene amount of work? According to The Tech, triple-majors haven’t been allowed since [url=<a href=“http://www-tech.mit.edu/V119/N67/67academic.67n.html]2000[/url”>http://www-tech.mit.edu/V119/N67/67academic.67n.html]2000[/url</a>], so the most you can get as an MIT undergrad is two bachelors degrees and two minors.</p>
<p>(1000th post!)</p>