I don't know if I should change majors or not. Right now I am in philosophy where the professors say the average grade for a class is a B. Last semester I had 4 philosophy classes where that was the rule and I got 4 B's. Really sends down the gpa in my opinion (from a 3.8 to a 3.4) and that just doesn't seem right. One class was based on 100 points with the A cut off at 95. The best grade in the class was a 93 and I got a 92 giving me a B+. One professor only gave A's on papers if you changed your personal opinion to meet her's but even those students received B's in the class. Is this normal? Or should I really look into changing majors?
How do you feel being in classes where the professors say the max grade is a B unless you really impress them?
Some profs do this. I've always thought it was both wrong, yet their right. It's frustrating, to be sure.
About the only thing you can really do is get the course another way... from another prof... or maybe even from another school.
Nearly all colleges/universities will accept coursework from other similarly-accredited institutions. With most regionally-accredited US schools, a minimum of 9 to maybe 12 semester credit hours of coursework from other institutions will generally be accepted. Some of it can even be CLEP or DANTES exams. Some schools will accept up to 30 semester credit hours from other institutions... some schools even more (but most, less). Many schools also require that outside coursework can't happen during the senior year, but that varies, too.
If your school will take coursework from other institutions, then you're a perfect candidate for DISTANCE LEARNING (via online, or maybe CD/DVD lectures, or perhaps good, old-fashioned %26quot;correspondence%26quot;).
As long as the outside institution is %26quot;regionally%26quot; accredited by an agency approved (to accredit) by the US Department of Education (USDE) and/or the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA), then your school will likely accept its coursework. Just MAKE SURE that the distance learning school really IS so accredited by looking it up in either or both of the USDE and/or CHEA databases at:
http://www.chea.org/search
http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation
If the distance learning school isn't in one or both of those databases, then it is NOT accredited... no matter what it claims. Even some perfectly legitimate and otherwise credible (but nevertheless unaccredited) schools sometimes fib (or at least slyly mislead) a bit about their accreditation status; and pretty much ALL diploma and/or degree mills do... some of them even going to far as to make-up their own, completely fake (but nevertheless still very impressive sounding) %26quot;accreditors.%26quot; So be careful. ALWAYS look-up the school. Always.
One of the bets, chepest regionally accredited schools with a terrific bunch of (mostly asynchronous) distance learning courses at pretty much all undergrad (and some graduate) levels is Louisiana State University.
SEE: http://www.is.lsu.edu/courselist.asp?lev鈥?/a>
And there are tons of other places.
Never hesitate to fall back on distance learning to fill-in whatever holes might be in your regular, in-classroom college/university experience.
Hope that helps.
How do you feel being in classes where the professors say the max grade is a B unless you really impress them?
some proffesors are just jerks. You should have looked at Rate my proffesors.com and make a note to yourself not to take them again. If that was the first thing out of his mouth, you should drop the class and taken another one.
You have a 3.4. You will be fine.
