3.7 in Mech E possible? - Page 3

aibarr · 05-14-2008, 02:43 PM

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I'm at Caltech and there's plenty of collaboration going on.

That's good to hear... One of my friends went to Tech and she always seemed to be overly-concerned about the competition there. It was a little unnerving.

RacinReaver · 05-14-2008, 02:50 PM

Well, I think there is competition in the absolute highest rungs, as they have a stupid A+ grade here, so in some classes you get students that just have to get a 99% because an A isn't good enough. It kinda sucks for the rest of us, since they like to try and ruin curves.

aibarr · 05-14-2008, 03:23 PM

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It kinda sucks for the rest of us, since they like to try and ruin curves.

Ugh... Yeah, none of that at Rice, in my experience. If you asked the best folks in the class for help on things, they'd typically be more than willing to help out. Once we got to know each other, we'd all just schedule a time and location when we'd be doing a particular problem set and whoever wanted in on it would show up. That typically included people from the top of the class as well as people from the bottom.

RacinReaver · 05-14-2008, 07:36 PM

Yeah, I had the same experience at CMU. I found the lack of +/- grades made people a lot more cooperative on assignments, as there weren't nearly as many cutoffs to be concerned about making. Maybe the people on the A/B range weren't as forthcoming with their info, but they still generally needed enough help such that they'd come and work with everyone.