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<p>But there is no ‘F’ option in reality, at least in the case of freshman grades at MIT. The freshman grading at MIT is actually P/No-record and ABC/No-record, meaning that if you fail, no record of that failure exists on your external transcript at all. There is a record on your INTERNAL transcript, but that transcript is only seen by people at MIT and is almost never shown to anyone, and particularly not to other schools except in extremely rare and constrained cases.</p>
<p><a href=“http://web.mit.edu/firstyear/advisors/advyear/gradesprivacy.html[/url]”>http://web.mit.edu/firstyear/advisors/advyear/gradesprivacy.html</a></p>
<p>Yet MIT, as we can all agree, has managed to maintain a ferociously rigorous reputation despite the concealment of F’s (at least, in freshmen year). Hence, I ask again, if MIT can do this, why can’t Berkeely?</p>