<p>I’ve heard this from everyone. Carnegie Mellon is really hard and even if you work your but off you might not do that well. </p>
<p>im pretty intimidated. anyone else concerned?</p>
<p>how difficult is it to get A’s, A minuses.
Is it common to have above a 3.5 for econ majors?
are courses curved?</p>
<p>current students please respond. i have 5 days to make my decision.</p>
<p>CMU has no +/-'s for undergrads. Some courses are curved; some aren’t. The ones I’ve had that are curved have at least 20% of the class getting As. A bunch of courses I’ve had would have hard tests with lowish grades (avg 55-75), but then the grade cutoffs would be adjusted downwards or there would be easy homework that made up for it. I’m in computer science.</p>
<p>I do nothing and I pull off near perfect grades. I’m not Comp sci though but I have taken some harder comp sci minor courses. As long as you try, it’s pretty easy. The rumor definitely scared me too but I found it all pretty much a joke, especially for Tepper/HSS. I heard Econ has a few hard courses later on but this friend who said so does absolutely nothing and skips classes for weeks, so I don’t know how credible this source is.</p>
<p>Either way, just try and you’ll do well. If you think about it, and I think almost every CMU student agrees, you’ll never see a student who tries and is doing bad (perhaps more frequent in hard courses and comp sci). Also, all you need here is the average, the curve courses really help you do that. For example, Tepper postgrad is full of 3.0 gpa kids that get amazing jobs.</p>
<p>Does MCS have harsh curves?</p>
<p>Physics I and II for scientists give tests that they grade very… strictly. It’s common to lose 10-20 points for stupid, very minor errors, like forgetting on one line to put a vector sign above something. The test grades are low, but cutoffs for grades magically get set someplace that isn’t 90-A 80-B, and most people get As or Bs, I think, but a bunch drop it, partially because it’s always at 8:30 or 9:30 AM. In contrast, the physics lab is really dumb/easy, I hear.</p>
<p>SCS showed a graph a GPAs vs salaries received. Even the kids with the lowest grades were doing very well job-wise. I wouldn’t worry too much unless you are applying to med school.</p>
<p>Aah. Physics I and II. How are the Biology and Chemistry curves?</p>
<p>thanks for the responces.
accepted already, how much studying per night do u normally do?<br>
are physics I and II required?</p>
<p>i probably won’t do premed but do med schools, law schools, graduate schools know cmu is a hard school.</p>
<p>It’s really hard to say “per night”. CMU gives work in waves depending on exams and projects due. For example, I may be doing absolutely nothing for one week and be studying 1 hour a night only on homework and then when there’s an exam coming up or whatever that may suddenly go up to 4 hours or even more during finals. However, if you try and time manage correctly, it’s not hard to have quite a bit of free time and do well in academics.</p>
<p>I have a question, I know that if you get a 5 on the calc bc exam and a 5 on the ab exam, you can take the math placement test to see what class they put you in. DO you know if you go to calc 2 or calc 3d and what score is need for each?</p>
<p>No, they don’t publish the scores needed until after everyone has taken the placement tests. You’ll find out sometime during the summer where you place.</p>