Re: High Level College Electives
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Upper-level courses are graded on a different scale. If you get a C, that's terrible and you really have some explaining to do. At least in the UM aerospace program, the grades were pretty much A, A-, and B+ with the occasional A+. Anything below B+ looks really bad.
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Well, my philosophy courses are curved around a B-. However, seemingly the grades in my English classes are pretty high, so your curve may be accurate for those. I thought the engineering courses at U of M were supposed to be on a pretty tough scale; I guess not.
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Yeah, but they're judged differently. If you get a B, that's interepreted as a D. It doesn't really matter what it's curved around, as long as it's consistent throughout the program. This program's scale happens to be pretty compressed. I only know of two people who got an A+ while I was there. One kid was just a genius and got pretty much straight A+ and the other got like 2 while he was there.
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