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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The professors also all hate organic so you often don’t get the best instruction.
My kid is at a top 10 school and getting bs and cs in orgo — her chem advisor says she’s doing fine with those grades.  Her other classes are all super easy for her—this is the only slog.  But it really depends a lot on the school — it’s hard everywhere but in some schools, it’s really hard and C is considered a pretty good grade.  Some other top schools grade inflate a little more and do like a B curve instead of a C curve.  [/quote]

I’ll never forget an orgo test with the top score setting the curve from a 36/100. [/quote]What is the point of an exam where the best student only gets 36%[/quote]

I've always wondered that.  Had one bad calc prof in college (it was known they were terrible but had to take the course that semester).  The average one midterm was ~18 with a high score of 39, with another 3 people getting 37/32/30 (in a class of ~40). I had the 37, but it was challenging studying for that class, because it really didn't matter---you looked at the exam and thought, WTH, and did your best.  I get not having an average of 95, but there should be somewhere in between 
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On the other hand I once had an advanced math class where they graded on a strict thirds curve so a 95 ended up being a B.  I was on the fence about my  math minor anyway and decided not to go further.

They keep harping on about having more kids in STEM but then they haze potential STEM students like crazy.[/quote]

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