College Grade Inflation

bluebayou
Sun, 30 Dec 2012 11:10:32 +0000

In a nutshell, your 36 vs. 38 comparison is too simplistic.



Oh, Puhleeze. It is a FACT.



Practically speaking, no remotely motivated CSOM major would graduate with 108 credits.



Do you have any statistics, with source, to support your theory?



For accounting majors, 120 credits is an implicit requirement in order to achieve the CPA.



That is incorrect. The rules for a CPA have been increased, and a 5th year of coursework (150 units) is pretty much required nationally, so one can ear the BS with 108 units and take a 5th year (or Masters) for the rest of the required coursework. But regardless, you are cherry-picking one major, and accounting just ain’t that rigorous, at any college. (I know, because that is what I do.) I would readily submit, however, that Finance is rigorous – if we are to cherry-pick just one major.



Excel is extremely helpful…



Never said it wasn’t. I clearly said the difference is that CSOM gets course credit for learning Excel, yet A&S science majors have to learn it themselves on the side. BIG difference.



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I would pay money to sit in on an JP Morgan interview with someone who has yet to explain the fact that he has 108 credits.[/qutoe]

As long as that person has a 3.9+, I would submit that an IB is not going to be counting classes on a transcript. :)



I would venture to guess that advisors in the other concentrations would highly discourage graduating with anything less than 114 credits.



Do you have any factual data to support this guess? How about HR? Marketing? The general and ubiquitous, Leadership concentrations?

Regardless, we’ll just have to agree to disagree. And, fwiw, BC agrees with my ideas since the College increased the grad requirements for CSOM, much to the dismay of the students. :D