Berkeley's Grade "Deflation" Is A Myth?

liquidmetal
Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:11:16 +0000

@ Future: Oddly enough, if you think about grades, and grade distributions, then you probably won’t do well here.

The people who do best are those that major in what they are passionate in (regardless of GPAs/difficulty). As long as you are passionate, the grades will come naturally. A 3.8+ is very doable.

I have friends that take classes solely based on the grading distributions, which often backfires because of their lack of interest in the course. Forget about this off-season junk as well.

Aside from passion, the only “logistical” things you should do are to take the class with an instructor known to be good and (most importantly) schedule no more than 2 premed classes per term.

Balance 2 premed classes with 1 R&C course, and perhaps an AC course. This is really really important, because it makes getting close to a 4.0 pretty easy.