UCHICAGO Grades, GPA, Hard Work, Student Study Ethic 2016 Thread

phoenix1616
Sat, 14 Jan 2017 20:36:35 +0000

1. Grade inflation is now significant, but this depends on the major. Biology is no tougher than at other top schools from what I've heard from people who are in med school admissions. Plenty of the Core classes are easy, especially the science classes targeted at humanities majors and the foreign language classes, and there's one easy Hum (Language and the Human) and one scandalously easy Sosc (Mind) if you want to chicken out.

2. I know plenty of people who aren't brilliant who have 3.7-8s. You don't get into genius required range until you hit the 3.9s (roughly top 3% of the class). The average for the college as a whole is about 3.3.

3. I do 3-6 hours a day, much more when I have papers or finals to write.