BU Grade Deflation is Very Real

BUsenior
Thu, 17 Feb 2011 01:38:34 +0000

B or B+ has been the median grade in the vast majority of the classes I’ve taken. Other than a few of the intro science/premed courses, I’ve never heard anyone actually complain about it. Without a B median, grades aren’t useful for differentiating between above average students. I’m not sure how I feel about using harsh curves (median below B-) in intro classes to weed kids out of science/premed majors. It might be better to just curve those classes to B like all the other classes and require a 3.5 to continue the program, or something like that. That way, you’d stop the idiots from being doctors, but their GPAs wouldn’t make them look any worse than the political science kids.