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Johns Hopkins has had this since forever
by timcobb 2mo ago
Johns Hopkins has had this since forever
- evanelias 2mo agoI was about to post the same; they adopted the pass/fail first semester policy in 1971. But then I was just horrified to read apparently they got rid of that system in 2017 [1], and now it's a normal letter grade?! Assuming that Hopkins still skews quite harshly on grading, that's an awful regression. [1] https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2016/05/university-to-end-covered-grades-in-fall-2017/ https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2016/05/university-to-...
- timcobb 2mo agoWow thanks for the update/correction
- skt5 2mo ago+1. As an alum I've observed both: * kids who partied hard first semester since grades didn't matter only to struggle second semester * kids who benefited from this transition because they didn't go to Hotchkiss I ended up in both buckets and I have mixed feelings about this since it helped and hurt me. In the long run - it really didn't matter.