How hard is it to get an A in Princeton??

ec1234
Mon, 06 Jun 2005 16:29:39 +0000

if you come in thinking that you are going to get straight As in all of your courses pretty easily, unless you are retaking all of your AP credit classes, you will be disappointed. That is, unless you have gone to exeter or some similar school.

I had straight As, tons of AP classes, at a pretty good suburban high school. First semester at Princeton I had a 3.3. Now in intro courses I may have done better, but I’m just saying that As are not given out easily, especially in smaller classes. In science classes, rarely are 35% of the grades given out in the A range. Maybe 15-20% are, if youre lucky. In the humanities, you are asked to do things that you have never done before (or atleast I hadnt)–> like a 25 page term paper. And if you’ve ever learned the 5 paragraph essay or its equivelant, forget it right now.

If you work hard, you can definately get a B+, and probably an A- or so, but dont go in expecting a 4.0