I've heard that Berkeley is a school known for its grade deflation

<p>“Don’t come here for math, premed, or stats, unless you are willing to study 40 hours per week, and even then you have to deal with the savants and the asperger’s kids that literally do nothing but study because it’s all they know how to do. I have 3 of those in my stats class. weird people but amazing academics.”</p>

<p>I’m pretty sure that’s an exaggeration. Also, I don’t really know how you lumped those together. Savants don’t make good pre-meds, and math/stats don’t need to study that much, it’s more of a “get it or don’t” thing. Some problem sets can take awhile but unless you’re taking 4 math classes a semester that all have really hard professors I don’t really know how you can get up to the 40 hour range.</p>