<p>Marite, I was quite surprised with these numbers too. Though they are for only one recent semester it is not likely that other semesters would be radically different.</p>
<p>However Cornell is to be commended for being so transparent in order for their undergrad put their individual grades in some perspective. Who knows, we might be surprised at other college’s distribution too if they were made available to faculty and students.</p>
<p>And for a bit of clarification, I did have to plow through a lot of course reports so there may be some small errors. I did leave out ILR, Hotel Mgt, Vet Medicine, Law and ROTC grades but I think I included some of the AgSchool and Human Ecology College courses, not that they would make much of a difference.</p>
<p>It was interesting that the Econ course grades were among the lowest on general observation and of course the dreaded OChem accounted for 2 of the 8 B-'s. Hah!!!</p>