Michigan State University, So what if USA today ranks it 74th in the nation, they still consider it top tier. The class averages here are still in the 60s like any university out there (lower in the intro sciences as with 7,000 incoming freshmen every year theres ~2000 guaranteed "not so bright" students). Most of the time I cant even benefit from other people's failures like you guys because most of my damn classes wont curve any grades even if only one freakin person out of 40 gets a 4.0. Might not be top public university #20 berkely but I'm sure adcom wont bitch at me for attending there since I've seen MANY people from here get in from small tier 3 colleges and CC. And I don't know what you're all bitching about, it's "guaranteed" as in I myself find it quite easy to fall within that percentage range (86-92, depending on the class) while performing within the "average" range in schoolwork that requires not as much work from me, having had parents who forced me to overachieve all through grade school. I can study for a couple hours and come through with 44/50 questions right on my exam every 2-3 weeks, or I can work my ass off and get a 50/50 every time. I just find that its MUCH easier for me to get 88% in a class than it is to get a 93+%. Half of these science classes are just simple brute memmorization courses with very little application of the material, but then they place a couple IMPOSSIBLE questions on the exams to trick you and that makes getting a perfect score so freakin hard.
And from what i hear an 88-91 = 3.7 in many of the more traditionally grading systems (A-/B+) The way my grades keep falling on this scale, I'd kill to have that system implemented here.