BU Grade Deflation is Very Real

BUBailey
Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:16:46 +0000

unless you are harvard, you don’t get respect by giving out all A’s. No department, no dean, and no grad school will respect a class where everyone received an A. and you shouldn’t either. classes MUST be rank ordered. Everyone does not deserve an A. Unless a class is very small and made up of the most dedicated students, I can’t see a situation where it makes sense not to have a curve. Professors who end up giving out all A’s aren’t usually teaching anything…they’ve made the test too easy. If I work hard and get an A, I’ll be a little disappointed if the moron next to me who facebooks all class gets the same thing.

Curving is not a safeguard for students; it is a tool for rank ordering…which the real world does every single day. Best get used to it now.