Date: May 28th, 2012 3:16 AM Author: drunken church building
Imagine being a lowly TA trying to tell some super entitled super striving freshmen with well connected alumni parents that the kid is going to receive a B- grade in your class. Imagine how much grief that TA expects to suffer by delivering that B- grade in this context.
Date: May 27th, 2012 11:41 PM Author: Fragrant juggernaut
basically no one at berkeley/illinois gets 3.7+ from CS because there is a brutal bell curve. at big state schools the professors don't give out A's and A-'s like fucking candy. one of my good friends did EECS and business at berkeley, and he was one of only 2 people in EECS who got 3.7+ his year. and that department is stacked with smart asian strivers.
Date: May 28th, 2012 12:20 AM Author: Fragrant juggernaut
depends on the major. a 3.9 harvard math major? probably. but a 3.9 history major at harvard would get destroyed in berkeley, carnegie mellon, illinois CS.
Date: May 28th, 2012 12:20 AM Author: saffron trip dilemma generalized bond
"depends on the major. a 3.9 harvard math major? probably. but a 3.9 history major at harvard would get destroyed in berkeley, carnegie mellon, illinois CS."
Date: May 28th, 2012 12:26 AM Author: Fragrant juggernaut
didn't go there. but my CS friends who did illinois are making great money at tech firms and high-frequency trading shops. they're making more than probably 95% of harvard alums their age.
Date: May 28th, 2012 3:07 AM Author: vigorous mildly autistic hall alpha
pretty sure vast majority of the people in the top 10% are non-stem majors. also, you guys seem to be forgetting that the top 10% at HUG (roughly 160 students) are probably the smartest, most ambitious, and hardest working college students in America.