What makes organic chem so hard in college?

[Sam_Lee]

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If he is as smart as you say and a certain % of people in the orgo class did receive A’s (let’s say 10%) and he couldn’t score in that range for orgo as he has done in other classes, what’s to say that he is not simply a little weaker in orgo than in other subjects?

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<p>The point is he’s likely as good in orgo as in other classes. For example, if orgo awards top 10% A while another class, such as physiology I, awards top 30% A and you barely make top 20% on both, you would get a B in orgo while you get A in physiology. </p>

<p>If the mean at Cornell is curved to B, then the orgo isn’t particularly harder than others AT CORNELL. So I guess Sakky and I should have pointed out it depends on schools you go to. However, at Northwestern and Stanford, orgo is harder than others because the mean is curved to B-/C+. At Northwestern, pretty much half the class get C+/C or below which is unusual for a grade-inflated school. Many others schools, as Sakky pointed out, seem to adopt similar grading for orgo.</p>