<p>With those numbers, it certainly seems the professor either made an error or should never have offered extra credit. I hope she prevails, but wonder if the professor will acknowledge the issue. Good luck!</p>
<p>Another way to look at it, with those numbers, the D would have needed to ace 190 points worth of extra credit in order to go from 88.1 to 90.</p>
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<p>That is entirely reasonable. There shouldn’t be extra credit to increase your final grade 2% in a college-level class. All the parents here might have reached consensus, but, as a TA who’s handling classes that might be similar to the OP’s daughter’s college class, I seriously doubt that the grade will be changed. I believe the professor offered extra credit as a way to help someone whose grade is 89.93 to just make it over, not to increase anyone’s B+ to an A-.</p>
<p>Still, I wish the OP’s daughter luck. It definitely never hurts to ask.</p>
<p>I got this quote from a colleague at the annual meeting for my teaching discipline’s national organization a few years back. “Extra credit is meant to heal the living, not raise the dead.”</p>
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Under this scheme, a student with a 59.2 could bump to 60 with the EC, but a student with an 89.2 could not bump to a 90. He would need to have 89.8 in order to get a bump to 90. It seems somewhat unfair that a poorer student would get a better boost than a better student from the same assignment.</p>
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<p>Gee, sounds like your colleague has a serious animus against helping students who happen to be Zombies. Doesn’t he/she know that Zombie students deserve the same level of courtesy and consideration extended to the living students??? 
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