There is absolutely no point in this. But this person posted “elsewhere”. The answer is that 3/4 of those are standardized and fin. accounting grades are fit to a distribution so whether the instructors write hard, easy, or medium tests is irrelevant. OP should choose the BEST instructors and do the damned work. Calculus is all over the place (and they switch out the roster each year, so there would be little info. on many of them) and OP may as well come up with a code for each section and do a series of coin tosses and choose whichever corresponds to the code they created because there is no telling what they are going to get . Most sections are run by loosely regulated graduate students and some are run by lecturers/research faculty. I recommend the latter as they have more teaching experience. These are definitely courses where what you put in is what you get out, no matter the teacher. I doubt there is anyone to avoid due to unfair levels of difficulty unless there is someone absolutely horrible at conveying content.
@bjkmom : This person is likely pre-bus and doesn’t have to take calculus 2, and is likely trying to just cruise through ECAS days (I’ve seen some do this) to apply to GBS with a super high GPA. However, I’ve seen this backfire as the transition for those who took such a path is usually a bit rougher than for other folks who challenged themselves more (or at least considered teaching quality more than or as much as difficulty of getting a solid grade) in ECAS. Since the remaining GBS cores and some electives are distribution graded, it is probably best to build a work ethic, knowledge base, and resilience (GBS has a normal load at 5 classes each semester and some, those 5 will all be “real” courses), while also learning how to perform well when presented with a challenge. They should basically choose course schedules that challenge and push them without overwhelming them. It would be hard for them to be overwhelmed with a schedule like that unless they are completely unprepared for Emory, or just flat out refuse to work.
They will be competing against many (25-30%) ambitious enough to continue a double major (often in a STEM/STEM adjacent subject at that). If I were the type who entered Emory’s campus already hoping for only easy A’s in all courses. I wouldn’t want to compete against those people once I place in the BBA program. Also, GBS seems to understand a couple of academic slip-ups here and there and looks for how a student handled it in later courses related to the subject they struggled in (so they don’t encourage retaking of C or higher grades for example. I think they want students who signal that they were challenged in the classroom at some point).