Blizzard employees work at Princetown University

[kandrathe]

Bleh, I agree. Focusing on grades and grading is a horrible way to run education. It would almost be fairer to do everything on a pass/fail basis. You either get it enough to move on, or not.

I really think that people should get a fair grade, and not limited by some quota. If a particular class has an unusually large number of bright people in it, then it might be the case that 40 or 50 percent of them get higher than average. But, statistically over time it should be a wash. What infuriates me is that peoples dreams are at stake, and universities are so damn cavalier about messing them up. It's not like attending is unneccesary, easy or cheap.

For example, at the university my wife attended, after her sophmore year she was to transfer to the school of her major having completed the prerequisites. The year she was ready to transfer to the school of Business (which she must do to be able to register for any further classes in her major) due to a freak bulge in the number of applicants, the GPA requirement was 3.85 in the core of 12 prerequisite courses which included 3 calculus courses, a stats course, 3 accounting courses, 3 computer, micro/macro econ. She had a 3.83. Two of her accounting courses were the kind where the prof only awarded 1 A, and a handful of B's in a class of 100 students. Those B's meant she could not pursue her major, and instead of getting a degree in business, she chose the shortest path out of the University. She was accepted into the school of Mathematics and got a degree in Statistics. She went on to get 2 Masters degree's at a different, more highly accredited school.

Either extreme in grading mucks up the works. I hope the engineer who designed the safety devices on my car went to one of those harder, intense schools. :)