tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post488128567735046225..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: Ike In Idaho Falls Sends In An Old School Snowflake Email!!! We're Killing Like It's 2009!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-44393582857993807402015-05-16T18:42:00.102-04:002015-05-16T18:42:00.102-04:00The course IS being retroactively replaced. Replac...The course IS being retroactively replaced. Replacing an earned grade with an audit grade is replacing the grade. The student is also no longer enrolled at the CC, so any policies no longer apply. I_am_not_nicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12164044353299362252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-54945313712909302762015-05-16T15:43:03.740-04:002015-05-16T15:43:03.740-04:00From my interactions with colleagues who are in me...From my interactions with colleagues who are in med school admissions, I understand that the undergraduate institution's particular method of GPA calculation has no effect. <br /><br />The student enters every grade on their transcript into an online app form, and the app service computes an overall GPA broken down by undergraduate and graduate, as well as a GPA for just the science Ogre Proctor Hephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428431147495287413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-82843698090342331372015-05-16T10:22:09.304-04:002015-05-16T10:22:09.304-04:00from Ike:
Monica (and others), had this student r...<i>from Ike:</i><br /><br />Monica (and others), had this student repeated the course at Wasteland CC, his GPA would have been recalculated with the higher grade. Also, if his Science GPA is hurting it is the accumulated effect of a poor grade in more than just my class.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-53600388959730029972015-05-16T08:32:47.958-04:002015-05-16T08:32:47.958-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.I_am_not_nicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12164044353299362252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-2999213872171094642015-05-15T15:26:36.322-04:002015-05-15T15:26:36.322-04:00Not at all. Maybe that would be the case if the gr...Not at all. Maybe that would be the case if the grade was retroactively replaced with a different grade or if the course was outright erased from the transcript.<br /><br />My university actually had a policy that made it possible to keep poor grades on the transcript without including them in the GPA, if the student was sick (depressed, for example). That was not done automatically. The student Monicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08103879727877816655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-3224887253523111752015-05-15T14:00:18.860-04:002015-05-15T14:00:18.860-04:00Monica, why should anyone FALSIFY an official tran...Monica, why should anyone FALSIFY an official transcript for this dunderhead? In effect, that is what you are advocating.I_am_not_nicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12164044353299362252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-54665641949472821622015-05-15T12:21:28.133-04:002015-05-15T12:21:28.133-04:00The student wants to "renounce his right to c...The student wants to "renounce his right to credit for a course"? That's a new one.<br />Monica, where do you come up with this stuff??<br />Many students these days do take courses multiple times to improve their grades and GPA, and the only pesky hurdle to that goal are those annoying academic regulations (damn these "barriers to success"!) about how past course grades Prof Poopieheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00997969128824319914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-2819436786994962072015-05-15T09:31:14.929-04:002015-05-15T09:31:14.929-04:00Why the fuck can't you just give them the grad...Why the fuck can't you just give them the grade they want??? They're paying your fucking salaries!!!!<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-28839242612266159142015-05-15T08:52:45.501-04:002015-05-15T08:52:45.501-04:00It's not some mere technicality that is pullin...It's not some mere technicality that is pulling his GPA down, it's the fact that he didn't earn a grade above C- first pass. The registrar at my joint would chain herself to the computer where grades are entered to prevent others from accessing it, if she caught wind that someone planned to perpetrate such an act of revisionist history as the student requested. Once you fall down thatOgre Proctor Hephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428431147495287413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-91910053326161915652015-05-15T07:43:36.829-04:002015-05-15T07:43:36.829-04:00Monica, you're funny. Students do not have the...Monica, you're funny. Students do not have the right to chhose whether a course grade is part of their GPA. That's not how this works. You have an interesting view of this and I suspect students will tey that line of arguement in the near future. God help us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-67749794110177235392015-05-15T06:33:38.849-04:002015-05-15T06:33:38.849-04:00Dont worry about Monica. She very often sees the o...Dont worry about Monica. She very often sees the other side in all of these matters. I used to think she was keeping us honest. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-39404328833850097372015-05-15T02:46:22.309-04:002015-05-15T02:46:22.309-04:00Maybe he can go to one of the Caribbean med school...Maybe he can go to one of the Caribbean med schools that advertise on posters at my institution. (For all I know, they're perfectly good med schools, but most med schools don't seem to need to advertise, or to assure potential applicants that really, they've met graduates of the school before, acting like actual doctors, which seems to be what the messages on the posters boil down toContingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-42854207911970409072015-05-15T00:30:41.010-04:002015-05-15T00:30:41.010-04:00What "technicality"? He didn't audit...What "technicality"? He didn't audit the course the first time. The record should stay intact.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02906546940408742913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-86639632733691206312015-05-15T00:15:36.716-04:002015-05-15T00:15:36.716-04:00He's not asking for a do-over. He did earn a h...He's not asking for a do-over. He did earn a higher grade and he is not asking to get that grade instead of the C-. If anything, he wants to renounce his right to credit for a course that he nevertheless attended and paid for. If what amounts to a retake is not recognized as such and this technicality is hurting his science GPA, I don't see what's wrong with the request.Monicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08103879727877816655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-33924505827989980492015-05-14T23:22:35.079-04:002015-05-14T23:22:35.079-04:00Great, a doctor who believes in unlimited do-overs...Great, a doctor who believes in unlimited do-overs. That'll go well. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15711314415244801354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-43140498763108357032015-05-14T23:18:56.005-04:002015-05-14T23:18:56.005-04:00Oh, and moar emails, please. These are fun.Oh, and moar emails, please. These are fun.Ogre Proctor Hephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428431147495287413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-13912064545091406772015-05-14T23:18:23.154-04:002015-05-14T23:18:23.154-04:00Rest easy that the kid's "personal statem...Rest easy that the kid's "personal statement" will be a compleat clusterfuck (unless somebody else writes it -- but that somebody else will not be in the interview, if it comes to that, so the kid will tank the interview). Ze'll also have to explain hir GPA and retaking the course at a different school. The system will do its job, if not sooner, then later.Ogre Proctor Hephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428431147495287413noreply@blogger.com