How hard to get A's at UVA?

wahoogrl08
Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:14:04 +0000

Well as a Soc and Government double major, I can attest to the fact that my Soc. GPA was considerably higher than my Gov’t/Politics GPA.

From my experience, the politics courses tended to be larger (with the exception of 400 and 500 level seminars) with more discussion sections/TA grading. I never felt as confident about the material in the larger classes. Most of my sociology courses, even at the 300 level were comparatively smaller, and much more room for in-class discussion. Still did a lot of writing though…with the exception of my Law and Society class, most of my exams were some kind of essay.

Each department had its “easy A” classes though.

I do remember during summer session 2007 taking a bunch of the sociology pre-reqs so that I could declare the major and a bunch of my classmates were members of the football team. I wasn’t quite sure why they were all so interested in sociology, but it did kind of annoy me with how laissez-faire they behaved towards the class. One guy spent most of the class period on his Sidekick and would up and leave during the middle of class and then not come back.