April 29, 2004
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PRINCETON APPROVES GRADE-RATIONING PLAN
PRINCETON, New Jersey (AP) -- Princeton University faculty approved a plan to combat rising grades by limiting the number of A's it awards to undergraduates.
Faculty are expected to restrict the number of A's to 35 percent in undergraduate courses. For junior and senior independent work, the percentage receiving A's will be capped at 55 percent.
A's have been awarded 46 percent of the time in recent years at Princeton, up from 31 percent in the mid-1970s.
At other Ivy League schools, the percentages of A grades in undergraduates courses ranges from 44 percent to 55 percent, according to Princeton's Web site. At Harvard University, 91 percent of seniors graduated with some kind of honors in 2001.
Very few students supported the change.
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Wouldn't you think Ivy League profs would be able to rate students individually instead of relying on bell curves? Well, Princeton is really just a big frat house for rich kids pretending to be a university.
Sideshow Bob: "You wasted all those years at Clown College." His brother: "I'll thank you not to refer to Princeton that way."
my college guidance teacher told us about that! it's so gay!
KTO
hrrrmmmammmmmmmmm
yeah, i dont know what to say...............yeah, sorry. i cant help it. well humm.
Sounds like a pretty crap idea!
I think it's dumb.
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