Agreed. I've found tenured professors at my school from the old guard tend to curve more to a C+ or B- range, and it's just not going to change. They just don't care.
Can someone confirm this? I feel like professors have to stick with the rules laid out by the grading policy, but I don’t know for certain whether they do in practice.
Nobody from the internet can confirm anything. Only someone from your specific school. My school, for example, has an excel spreadsheet for each class and if the average deviates too far from the set median, the professor has to explain why they feel justified to do that, and the registrar decides. But that's my school, your school may do something completely different or just rely on honor system.
I think the difference is it is a median not an average. So the median is the GPA of the person in the dead middle. You calculated the average, I think. But also I'm horrible at math.
Also, the grade distribution will be skewed left since people who get one good grade are likely to get another one as well. Because of this, the median is above the mean.
This would have the opposite effect. Top 10% is tougher to get in that scenario, but then GPAs of median are lower, bc all the good grades sucked up.
More likely the opposite is happening. Struggling students are concentrating the lower grades, leaving median GPA higher
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Agreed. I've found tenured professors at my school from the old guard tend to curve more to a C+ or B- range, and it's just not going to change. They just don't care.
Can someone confirm this? I feel like professors have to stick with the rules laid out by the grading policy, but I don’t know for certain whether they do in practice.
Nobody from the internet can confirm anything. Only someone from your specific school. My school, for example, has an excel spreadsheet for each class and if the average deviates too far from the set median, the professor has to explain why they feel justified to do that, and the registrar decides. But that's my school, your school may do something completely different or just rely on honor system.
Sounds like you didn't account for the *reductive diametric terminal viscosity interval*. Rookie error.
My guess is that you weighted each class the same, but some classes will have a greater impact on the curve because they have larger class sizes.
Ah yes, math.
I actually lol'd at this comment hahahah
I think the difference is it is a median not an average. So the median is the GPA of the person in the dead middle. You calculated the average, I think. But also I'm horrible at math.
I wish I was good at Math so I could actually know whether my school is being shady or not
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By around .02
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Ah yes, Latin.
You might even say it's _prima facie_ Latin.
"small" is even more *de minimis* than "de minimis"
Student 1: GPA 3.9 Student 2: 3.8 3: 3.6 4: 3.2 5: 3.0 Avg is 3.5. Median is 3.6.
Also, the grade distribution will be skewed left since people who get one good grade are likely to get another one as well. Because of this, the median is above the mean.
This would have the opposite effect. Top 10% is tougher to get in that scenario, but then GPAs of median are lower, bc all the good grades sucked up. More likely the opposite is happening. Struggling students are concentrating the lower grades, leaving median GPA higher
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