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E-PrinceOnly 39.7 percent of undergraduate grades given last year were A-pluses, A’s or A-minuses, Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel announced at a faculty meeting on Monday. Last year marked the first time A-range grades were given at ...(back to the article)
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what?? those are my A's they're throwing away!!!
“‘We want departments to grade even-handedly,’ [Malkiel] explained, ‘so that there isn’t an advantage to a student to be in Department A versus Department B.’”
Giving the same percentage of A-range grades to students in Department A and Department B won't make any sense until you get the same caliber of students across all departments. You could reduce the percentage of A-range grades in the Economics department to 15% and they'd still be easier to come by than the English department, which has historically been among the departments giving the highest percentage of A-range grades. (Not to pick on econ, but really — they've got a separate "non-math track" that exists solely draw more underqualified students into the department. And I speak as an economics major.)
hooray for mediocre transcripts and a deflated sense of self-worth!
yeah I agree with 1:28- econ "non-math track" is a complete joke- anyone who is afraid of calculus has no business being an econ major- politics, WWS or history would be a more fitting choice.
Prince, please get and print the grade distribution for each department!
Yes, let's congratulate the faculty. Congratulations, Princeton faculty, for allowing yourselves to be forced to focus on numbers of As rather than the quality of the education you are dishing out, or the effects of this grading policy on our lives. Congratulations on making the academic lives of the neurotically hard-working students at the best university in the country that much more difficult. Congratulations on ignoring the opinions of students, and deflating grades based on arbitrary "symbolic barriers" during an economic crisis during which Princeton grads are having trouble finding gainful employment. CONGRATULATIONS. Great job.
I did not sacrifice some of the most glorious moments of my youth in high school to meet Princeton's very high admissions standards, arrive and get worked half to death, and then be told that my GPA will be precious tenths of points lower than those of students at other equally demanding institutions, just so that Dean Malkiel can fulfill some context-less golden agenda in the sky that serves no practical purpose and does a great deal of practical harm. Would someone kindly ask UHS about anxiety on campus? For me personally, this policy is psyche-slaughtering. Ridiculous.
Equality of outcome MUST mean equality of process, duh! Just look at the New Haven firefighter case for inspiration.
I HATE YOU MALKIEL
English harder than Econ? lol...funny stuff...try out ECO 312 or any game theory or 400 level courses....anyone can take an ENG 400 level and get a B+ with ease.