<p>What is the average workload like for an arts & sciences (not engineering student)? Specifically, how are the intro science and math classes (typical pre-med requrements)? And what is the grading like?</p>
<p>yea i heard there is an intense curve, making many people really competitive… More on this???</p>
<p>My son is a sophmore in A&S. He shares that there are no easy A’s to be found anywhere in the University. That being said, just about everyone there enjoys being energized and motivated by the very high-caliber of scholarship amongst professors and students alike.</p>
<p>More to the point; from the [Middle</a> States Commission Periodic Review Report - June 2003](<a href=“http://www.lehigh.edu/~oir/reports/MSCPRR/LUMSCPRR2003.pdf]Middle”>http://www.lehigh.edu/~oir/reports/MSCPRR/LUMSCPRR2003.pdf) found on the [university’s</a> web site](<a href=“http://www.lehigh.edu/~oir/reports.htm]university’s”>http://www.lehigh.edu/~oir/reports.htm):</p>
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<p>I can’t really tell you about the curves in physics(10/13) and math (51/52/43) because I took engineering math and physics courses. All of the Bio courses I have taken so far curve to a 2.7 which is pretty fair given the average in Bio is around a C- or a C. For organic you need to be usually around 15 points above the class average to get an A. He (same professor teaches it every year) curves so the class average is at a 2.7 and it is usually 12 points above the average to mark the 3.7 line. This type of grading screws you really badly (depending on how smart your peers are) on your first organic exam when the average is an 83 and you get a 93 and have a B+ for your midterm grade. But just wait until the second exam when the class average is a 54. There will be hell weeks as a science student but it is bearable. All of the humanities courses I have taken have been really easy.</p>
<p>Should have mentioned this: Neuroscience I and II isn’t curved neither are some of the upper-level bio courses I have taken. When I say “bio” I am referring to the three core courses you need to take. Core I: Cell and Molecular, Core II: Genetics, and Core III: Integrative and Comparative.</p>
<p>what about business…?
thanks</p>