As most of the Penn community knows by now, the University prides itself on encouraging interdisciplinary study. But students hoping to form a new program with their Accounting, Bioethics, Dutch and Criminology courses in time to declare a major may find the process more complex than they expected.
Some say Penn students are becoming smarter. Others assert that professors are loosening their standards. But whatever the reason, each year, grades are going up. During the 2004-05 academic year, 54 percent of grades given to students in the College of Arts and Sciences were A-minuses or higher, according to College administrators.
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