"Grade creep" has been a major phenomenon at many - but not all --top universities over the last years. Assuming that if a student is good enough to get in, the student 'must' do well, grading has become more generous, with A and B+ averages not unusual. Specifically, I know this is true at Harvard, Yale and Stanford. Grade creep has NOT occurred, as far as I can tell, at Duke and Berkeley. I doubt but don't know that it has happened at Swarthmore, Haverford, Caltech or MIT, and would suspect but don't know that it has at Princeton. And that rounds out my list of 'top' undergraduate universities.
I doubt that grading discriminates at any of the institutions between those who got in on 'merit', 'affirmative action', or 'legacy' (parent's attendance) admission policies. Athletes and 'affirmative action' admission at some institutions generally have special coaching available, but I would guess that these efforts are seriously intended to help the students with their learning, and, consequently and legitimately, grades. Cheers, Lawry -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brad McCormick, Ed.D. Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 7:46 AM To: William B Ward Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: the Power of a Yale Education and a good Silver Spoon. [snip] > > ( Maybe we should spend 50 million dollars to find who wrote his MBA > > papers > > for him at Yale Why assume Bush did not do his own assignments? Why not assume that those born with silver spoons in their mouths can do their Yale assignments even with a mixed booze and cocaine hangover, while those who go to Yale on merit have to bust their -sses to pass? To those who have much, more shall be given. From those who have little, what little they have will be taken away. As it was in the Beginning, was ever, and ever more shall be, Privilege without end, Amen. > > or maybe just investigate Yale. THe problem here is where shall we get the criteria to investigate them? On their own criteria, they probably come up at least as good as the whole US economy on Bush's criteria. > > After all, that > > is the > > school that took naked pictures of Hillary Rodham when she was a > > freshman, > > in the cause of pscho-somatic research. Did Hillary Clinton attend Yale as an UNDERGRADUATE? I do not believe the Ivy schools ever took the body-composition pictures of GRADUATE STUDENTS, probably because graduate students were considered to be closer to human beings by the human beings in the School (i.e., the Faculty), than undergraduates were considered to be. \brad mccormick > > I wonder whether the Prof > > was an > > Endomorph or Ectomorph? REH ) The Prof was probably a Tenured. [snip] -- Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------- Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/
