Are some majors harder than others?

meakame
Thu, 22 Nov 2012 13:18:40 +0000

And then there’s the curve – comparing my two majors (one STEM, one social science), there’s a huge disparity in grading practices. The STEM one tends to have strict curving to a B or B-. The social science classes peak around B+/A-. (This has been my experience; might not be generalizable.) Sooo…