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Something I noticed as an undergrad Comp Sci major was the disparity in the grade curves for my classes and those of my friends in other majors (cough business
by jwoah12 13y ago
Something I noticed as an undergrad Comp Sci major was the disparity in the grade curves for my classes and those of my friends in other majors (cough business school cough). If you look at the business classes' historical grade distributions, they would look something like: a few Fs and Ds, and then a sharp upward linear curve from C to A. The computer science, math, engineering classes always had a more classic bell curve with most of the grades in the C range.
Unless you're really interested in the subject matter, who would want to take the classes where they'll have to work harder, and generally get a lower GPA? I lost one of my partial scholarships because it required I keep a 3.5 GPA, regardless of my major. Want to take bets on whether I would have kept that scholarship had I been a finance major?