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Colleges, rightly have a minimum GPA to graduate. You can average grades on a 4.0 scale but not written feedback. Employers may use GPA as a metric when hiring.
by Bostonian 5y ago
Colleges, rightly have a minimum GPA to graduate. You can average grades on a 4.0 scale but not written feedback. Employers may use GPA as a metric when hiring. Written feedback can supplement but not replace grades.
- neon_electro 5y agoDoes this invalidate the author's point, given that she still delivers a GPA-compatible grade at the end of the course?
- Kwpolska 5y agoIf you’re given letter grades throughout the course, you can easily predict your final grade, by computing an average (perhaps a weighted average, as specified in the course’s grading rules). In this system, you don’t know which grade your collection of vague and fuzzy feedbacks corresponds to until the very end.
- musicale 5y ago> Colleges, rightly have a minimum GPA to graduate. Brown University does not have this requirement. Brown does not calculate GPAs, and courses may generally be taken S/NC, though courses must be passed in order to count toward graduation requirements. The other Ivies have traditional grading systems, but I'm not sure which ones have a minimum GPA requirement per se. Harvard seems to (satisfactory or B-) but Yale seems to require "successful completion" of coursework, though there is a minimum progress requirement (8 or 10 course credits per year) and you can fail out by failing three courses in two or three terms.