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How do people get 4.0s in undergrad? Do people literally get As in every single class since freshman year? No A-s? It seems close to impossible. Im in a state of incredulity; help me out here.
How do people get 4.0s in undergrad? Do people literally get As in every single class since freshman year? No A-s? It seems close to impossible. Im in a state of incredulity; help me out here.
1) They go to an easy school
or
2) They are insanely smart/hardworking
How do people get 4.0s in undergrad? Do people literally get As in every single class since freshman year? No A-s? It seems close to impossible. Im in a state of incredulity; help me out here.
How do people get 4.0's in undergrad? Do people literally get A's in every single class since freshman year? No A-‘s? It seems close to impossible. I'm in a state of incredulity; help me out here.
Probably mostly the latter. Undergrad isn't that hard and being smart can get you a long way. I would have had a 4.0 if I didn't blow off 2 classes freshman year. But being smart only gets you so far....you have to combine that with hard work. In med school, it's much more important that you are a hard worker, than you are smart - so long as you are "smart enough."
How do people get 4.0s in undergrad? Do people literally get As in every single class since freshman year? No A-s? It seems close to impossible. Im in a state of incredulity; help me out here.
Also, I should say that checking the classes grade distribution beforehand has helped me avoid obnoxiously hard professors. I don't always have a choice, but when I do, I pick the one with more As.
I credit my 4.0 (at least on my app) to a favorable grading system (no minuses and no A+) and luck.
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In the end, everyone gets a degree and is supposed to have learned similar material. The difference between a 3.8/3.9 and a 4.0 should be negligible, even if ADcoms don't see it that way.
They do see it that way.
Hard work, getting your priorities straight: remember, when you are a college student, treat it like a full time job. Very few students actually put in eight hours of study/work into their academics. Some people might not need to, but really, you are not required to do anything in school but get good grades (sure you can do extra like research, shadowing, etc.) but those are ECs! Get your priorities straight.How do people get 4.0s in undergrad? Do people literally get As in every single class since freshman year? No A-s? It seems close to impossible. Im in a state of incredulity; help me out here.
Imho having no A-s helps attain a 4.0 tremendously. I go to a A, B only school and I've seen it work in my favor a lot.
Hard work, getting your priorities straight: remember, when you are a college student, treat it like a full time job. Very few students actually put in eight hours of study/work into their academics. Some people might not need to, but really, you are not required to do anything in school but get good grades (sure you can do extra like research, shadowing, etc.) but those are ECs! Get your priorities straight.
Incredible luck.
How do people get 4.0s in undergrad? Do people literally get As in every single class since freshman year? No A-s? It seems close to impossible. Im in a state of incredulity; help me out here.
Always a cynic....
Or they have an easy major like communications, marketing, or art history.
I've always been curious... what do comm majors do with their degree?Comm. majors at my school have 4 required communications classes to graduate. The rest is gen. ed / elective courses.
This might be a bad decision for the long run. I chose a molecular biology class that everyone said to avoid because the teacher moves fast and the curve is rough. I barely missed out on an A but we covered a ton of stuff in that class and a lot of what we're covering in biochem now is pretty much review for me. Grades are very important but you're attending college to be educated.
90% of the people on SDN that have 4.0's 1. go to an easy school or 2. are lying. The other 10% are hard working or intelligent
I always had a tough time of understanding what "easy school" means. Perhaps there may be something like "harder than the rest"...with the rest being the "norm"... but there is definitely no such thing as an "easy" school.
Where ever you go, bio, chem, and physics is going to be AT LEAST equally hard. It can only get harder from there (say, if you attend Hopkins, or UChicago)...but the bare minimum standards never drop..so there is no such thing as "easy".
I always had a tough time of understanding what "easy school" means. Perhaps there may be something like "harder than the rest"...with the rest being the "norm"... but there is definitely no such thing as an "easy" school.
There are a couple thousand colleges in the country, and not all of them have the level of academic rigor that some of the more well-known colleges may. Also, as everyone else emphasized, lack of +/- can help.
But really, a LOT of people have 4.0's in college. It's only rare if you go to a school where it's especially difficult.
In general, it is absolutely not "close to impossible." That's laughable.
because if you aren't going to harvard, yale, etc., then your education is just inferior. people feel the need to justify their poor performance. I didn't go to a top undergrad by any means, but getting an a in most courses required very hard work and genuine mastery of the material (at least in the sciences). That fact is true no matter what university you attend. I suppose you might argue that expectations might be higher at hyp-like schools, but that doesn't cheapen the work required to get an a at a "lesser" university.
There are a couple thousand colleges in the country, and not all of them have the level of academic rigor that some of the more well-known colleges may. Also, as everyone else emphasized, lack of +/- can help.
But really, a LOT of people have 4.0's in college. It's only rare if you go to a school where it's especially difficult.
In general, it is absolutely not "close to impossible." That's laughable.
I've always been curious... what do comm majors do with their degree?
Because if you aren't going to Harvard, Yale, etc., then your education is just inferior. People feel the need to justify their poor performance. I didn't go to a top undergrad by ANY means, but getting an A in most courses required very hard work and genuine mastery of the material (at least in the sciences). That fact is true no matter what university you attend. I suppose you might argue that expectations might be higher at HYP-like schools, but that doesn't cheapen the work required to get an A at a "lesser" university.
Oh man, do people still think all schools are equal?
You have to work so much harder at a top college than you do at a regular college. My chem class limits As to 12%, and I'm sure many other colleges out there do around the same. What people are forgetting is who you have to compete with to get into that 12%. You can compete with a bunch of average kids at an average school or you can compete with hardcore HYP (I don't go there, just making a point) kids.
Which school would it be easier to get an A at? Even if schools like Harvard are known for grade inflation, so what? These kids probably would have gotten As at most other schools.
Do you have a 4.0?
Some of the most "well known" colleges are also well known for grade inflation.
I've always been curious... what do comm majors do with their degree?