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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most engineering programs grade most courses in a curve. Often, not always, the median is set at 3.0, which means half the class is getting less than a B. Engineering GPAs often are lower than humanities/arts GPAs at the same college.

Engineering course grading curves can be very tough. I remember courses where 50% correct was an A+, 35% correct was a B and 25% correct was passing (barely). 
 
No one accidentally gets an engineering degree from any ABET engineering program. Rankings of engineering programs are largely meaningless. [/quote]

jHU, ivies do not curve like this anymore. Median could be 50% correct or a wide variety, but it is usually assigned a B or B+, 35% get A- or above, 55% get B range, around 10% get C+ or lower. Median gpa is 3.5 in engineering vs 3.7 in arts and sciences. 
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DC is at an ivy … the one that dcum don’t like … stem classes chem, bio, physics, math, cs first two year level are graded on a curve where students above 1 standard deviation from the mean gets an A. That translates to about only 16% getting As. This was the same way ucla was graded when I went there back in the 90s.

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