<p>I’m sure this has been asked before, but I was curious to know how competitive within the classrooms, and how deep does the professor go in terms of course breadth in the sciences? </p>
<p>For instance, how hard would it be to maintain a high GPA (3.75+) during your 4 years at Duke majoring in Biology?</p>
<p>Also, are there any grade deflation/inflation problems at Duke?</p>
<p>To get “deans list” you have to be in the top 1/3 of the class. The cutoff is a 3.75. So about 1.3 of trinity gets that per semester. </p>
<p>Graduating cum laude, top 25%, is a 3.73
Magna, top 15% is a 3.816
Summa, top 5% is 3.921</p>
<p>Bio is definitely harder than a lot of other majors, but this should help a bit.
Consider 1300 or so kids in trinity, and you can figure raw number of kids</p>
<p>This is such a subjective question…I’m a bio major myself, and I can tell you that even between bio majors, people’s experiences are different depending on if they take the easiest classes, if they have a concentration, etc. There are really only 3 core courses for bio majors (Bio 101L, 102L, 26), and the other ones you take are up to you. For example, I took Bio 119 and 151L which are considered two of the hardest classes in bio, and I’m also concentrating for pharmacology, but a lot of students opt to take the easiest bio classes (and cheat themselves out of a complete bio education, in my opinion). My experience has been drastically different (and harder) than someone like that.</p>
<p>Not very, in some cases.</p>
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<p>check this out, it MAY help you get a better understanding
[Academic</a> Honors - Office of the University Registrar, Duke University](<a href=“http://registrar.duke.edu/registrar/studentpages/student/academichonors.html]Academic”>http://registrar.duke.edu/registrar/studentpages/student/academichonors.html)</p>