<p>i’ve narrowed my choices down to unc-ch and duke. now i’d like to know some of the random details. one of those is about how hard it is to get good grades. it’s probably pretty difficult at duke but a lower gpa at duke might look better than a lower gpa at unc. so basically what i’d like to know is… is it impossible to get good grades without studying 24/7?</p>
<p>hmmmm, thats always tough, so I’m gonna say “no” and “maybe” but i’m not gonna say “yes”</p>
<p>good grades depend on the following: your major, what classes your taking, who’s your professor, going to class, and of course studying (reading the book, reading and/or taking notes, studying for tests as in not the night before, going for help as in professor office hours or the many help centers on campus)</p>
<p>“it’s probably pretty difficult at duke but a lower gpa at duke might look better than a lower gpa at unc.”</p>
<p>Not necessarily true. If you browse around the Law School board, you’ll see what I mean. Law schools (and other grad/professional schools) are very number heavy and not very “name heavy.” An applicant w/ a 3.9 from UNC will be much more likely to get in than an applicant from Duke w/ a 3.7.</p>
<p>It is difficult to get good grades at UNC. I have only had one class in which the grades were curved up in the four fifteen hour semesters I have completed (it was Geology 11, fyi). My boyfriend attends Duke, and he says that he has only had one class that was NOT curved (keep in mind this isn’t a pure bell curve we’re talking about). I managed to get a 4.0 last semester, but I had to work my butt off to get it and will definitely not be repeating that this semester. As far as the name on the degree making the GPA look better or worse, my cousin has a friend who attends Vanderbilt and has a GPA of 3.2, and during his law school application process, he was told he’d have been much better off going to the University of Kentucky and getting a 3.7.</p>
<p>yea it is pretty difficult to get good grades, cause I’ve had some classes that I really worked my ass off to get a B. And I mean like spend hours in the library over the weekends and not going out just so I could study and get that B.</p>
<p>And hell wait for those intro science classes, those are a pain in the ass and you get a lousy grade no matter how hard you work.</p>