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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fact is most stem courses are graded on a curve....so unless everyone is earning a 90%+ in the course, your grade will be determined by "the overall level of smarts in the course". Much easier to get an A/B+ in Organic Chemistry at a school where you are in the top 20% of students vs one where everyone is a striver/4.0+ mentality[/quote]

This comment is dead on target.  Further, at many schools non-STEM courses will curve to maybe a 3.3/4 median grade, while STEM courses will curve to a 3.0 median.  Curving to 3.0 median means that about half the class is getting a B- or lower.  This can be crushing to a student used to all As or a mix of As and Bs, especially if there if family pressure on GPA / grades.[/quote]

Yup!  My kid is at at T40.  Took Orgo freshman year (so it's all freshman with AP/IB credit for reg chem).  Well apparently over 50% of the class had already taken some Orgo, most the FULL year of it. But they had to retake to get actual college credit.  So the average in the freshman Orgo on first midterm was 87%, where the avg on midterm 1 in the regular Orgo course (taken by mostly sophomores/juniors) was 45%.  My kid would have loved to be in the regular Orgo Course instead, since they had only had AP Chem and nothing beyond it.  They would have gotten an A, not a B and it would have been a lot let stress. [/quote]

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