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<p>Exactly. And at any other college, a student would have to take distributives/GE’s (or courses of interest) and perhaps struggle through with a B (or worse), and kill the GPA for Harvard Law. (Yes, I know, the open curriculum has no distributives.)</p>
<p>But look at it another way. Even with the Brown courses that are pseudo-curved: instead of the bottom quartile of the students all competing for a low B, they are cruising for a C- (or pass). That works wonders for the curve, since it spreads it out significantly. Win-win, even for the B’s since their competition is self-eliminated by the P/F. (just stats)</p>
<p>The FACT is that the average student at Brown has a much better chance at Harvard Law than does that average student at Dartmouth. Actually, the average student at Dartmouth has a near zero chance at HLS. Yet statistically, those student bodies are nearly the same. The only thing accounting for the differences in chances to HLS is the Brown curriculum.</p>
<p>Again, a no-brainer.</p>