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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was in the engineering honors program at a top 25 school and the curve killed my GPA and passion for engineering.

Professors would make exams impossibly hard and the averages were typically in the 30's (yes, 30% out of a possible 100%).  The average grade was then set as a 2.7 and everybody was curved based on that.  Being on the lower end of the honors cohort meant that my GPA sucked, when in any other situation I'd be top 1%.

My GPA is not at all indicative of my level of knowledge.  It just shows that I did worse than the other super talented students.  I should've gone somewhere with dumber students and easier curves.

[/quote]I had the same 2.7 curve at my engineering school, though the same curve applied across the whole university so you couldn't even use fluffy non-major classes to bring up your GPA.

Most of my exams also had a 30ish% median.  That was a totally normal distribution.  But there was typically one or two students in any 500-600 person class who would get a 95% or higher, with a 30 point gap to the start of the curve.  That was the point of the curve: to identify that student.[/quote]

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