I was fortunate that I was always an 'A' student. I attended a couple of colleges and universities due to my moving and being in the military. Each one was different. In all cases the difficulty always depended on the professor. The absolute best instructor I ever had was at the University of Maryland. I maintained my 'A' average until I took a business economics course. That instructor drove me nuts. He lectured every class and yet each test came from the news or some paper written somewhere. If you didn't spend time reading accepted ecnomists' papers, then you would fail the course. I barely got by with a 'C' It was my only C. I was furious.


>>Just for GP, in-state tuition at UNC Chapel Hill is $3455.00 and $30194.00 at Davidson... Davidson is only uust over $26000.00 more. Davidson is just slighly cheaper than Duke (not much) and the GPA/SAT requirements are just about the same: Davidson: 1374/4.1 Duke: 1480/4.0 UNC's requirements: 1299/4.4 (Gotta be straight A in an AP program)
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>>However, I know kids at both Duke and UNC with a 3.5 GPA...
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>>It would be interesting to compare the other schools...
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>At the U of M, you can get in with a -3.2. I've got a friend who is a professor and he says the school is down the tubes because they (board of regents) have lowered the bar in Memphis, to keep the lower achieving students from enrolling in the University of Tennessee. I don't know if that's the case, but I do remember having a "professor" who taugh English and the course was a joke. We read Romeo and Juliet for the whole semester, in class. I can't remember which part I had, but it was probably Romeo!<g> Then I had another one for a Criminal Justice course who talked about axing the jerdge a querstion. How do you achieve tenure when you can't even speak English? Then, I had a substantive criminal law course that forced you to sweat bullets. Every time you showed up for class, you had to have 10 cases briefed. There were two tests given, a mid-term and a final. The final was basically this:
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>Give the definitioin of the following common laws and break each law down into it's elements. Explain each element in detail. If you miss an element, you miss that question.
>Burglar,robbery,larceny,homicide,arson,rape and assault and battery were the crimes.
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>I still remember that burglary, at common law, is: the breaking and entering, the dwelling house, of another, at night, with intent, to commint a felony. Whew! At any rate, it appears the profs are now giving a "C" if the students just show up for every class. It's the dumbing down of America, because the kids need to "feel" better. Sorta like the million-man math system, where little johnny says 2+2 is 44. Well, isn't that special....