Grade inflation

[deacs1995]

helps...go to the easiest school if planning to go to graduate school.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323997004578640241102477584.html?mod=ITP_marketplace_0

 

[sailordeac]

The problem is: I always thought that easy classes were boring.

 

[deacondamo]

Sucks for Wake kids.

 

[wakephan09]

I didn't realize that Berkeley had built a second business school...

"Experts take high performance as evidence of high ability" but don't consider how easy it is to achieve that performance, wrote researchers from University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business

 

[KickballDeac]

I've felt that schools should include something like a Z-score on transcripts to compare how you did relative to the rest of your class or your major. It seems easy enough to provide next to GPA. Distinctions like cum laude can give a good idea where you place, but requirements for them vary from school to school.

I had a stats professor who actually assigned grades based on standardizing exam/quiz/homework scores. So like a Z-score of 1 (one standard deviation above the class mean) or higher was an A, 0.25-0.99 was a B- to B+, and so on. It certainly motivated us.

 

[wakephan09]

"Go for the Easy-A": The OliveGardenDeac strategy for succeeding at Wake Forest.

 

[wakephan09]

helps...go to the easiest school if planning to go to graduate school./QUOTE]

Sounds like this study is concerned primarily with professional schools -- specifically, business school application.

 

[buckets]

Sounds like this study is concerned primarily with professional schools -- specifically, business school application.

was it the title "MBA Admission Tip" that gave it away?