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As mrMOO mentioned, the curve makes UCLA more difficult than your typical community college. In my experience, I have not experienced curves in math and science courses in CC. For one thing, my classes had about 30 students and well, the grades were inflated. In the case that they did employ curves, the quality of the students would force an easier curve compared to how I would compare to the typical 4.0 2100+ college freshman at UCLA. In addition, in order to consistently distribute A’s, B’s, and C’s (instead of purely F’s), the curriculum would need to make itself relatively more lenient than compared to UCLA in order to ensure a success rate. You can’t fail everyone if we were employing some arbitrary universal standard about how well one should perform in calculus. So, there are a couple of levels upon which to compare the difficulty of a typical CC to UCLA.</p>