I was all ready to come in and blast this for breaches of privacy etc etc, but then I read this: >Forecast will show you your data and how your data compares w

I was all ready to come in and blast this for breaches of privacy etc etc, but then I read this: >Forecast will show you your data and how your data compares with a University-wide picture of past and present Purdue students. Forecast also will point you to concrete steps, based on the data, which may help you improve your academic performance. Oh man, could I have used this in college. All the other students talked so much about how their last essay sucked, or how they hardly studied at all for this upcoming exam. Bull. Shit. They've been spending 8+ hours a day in the library for the last two weeks preparing for that exam, and that all-nighter they moaned about so loudly was just icing on the cake. I want so much to go back and slap some sense into my younger self for believing all that 'modest' crap. (Or, I guess, for letting myself believe it. Look at all these people, how successful they are without even working! Guess I don't have to work either! Idiot.) A system like this has the potential to be huge in terms of helping students wrap their heads around what's actually expected of them in a college environment. I'm thinking in particular here of "Big-Fish-Small-Pond" students such as those from lower income or small town backgrounds, who are used to programs pitched at a lower common denominator. As long as Purdue keeps their databases locked down, I'm totally on board with this.