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<p>And therein lies a brilliant premed strategy: major in something easier than bio while still taking the premed requirements (perhaps at a community college). Pre-law provides no such brilliant strategy because the humanities and social sciences as you have observed obtain most of their student body are already highly grade inflated. </p>
<p>But the point is, it shouldn’t be that way. Different majors should not exhibit such grading differentiation. The grade distributions of each major should be roughly the same. If it is fair for, say, the engineering majors to be harshly weeded, then the American Studies majors should also be similarly harshly weeded. What’s fair is fair.</p>
<p>Otherwise, don’t weed the engineering students, which is my preferred solution. </p>
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<p>*“The physical sciences and engineering had rigorous grading standards roughly in line with the recommendations from 1976,” stated Rine, "while the humanities and social sciences in many classes had all but given up on grades below a B, and in many courses below an A-, *</p>
<p>[Undergraduate</a> Education Colloquium, The College of Letters and Science, UC Berkeley](<a href=“http://ls.berkeley.edu/undergrad/colloquia/04-11.html]Undergraduate”>http://ls.berkeley.edu/undergrad/colloquia/04-11.html)</p>