Do IV League Schools Make You Earn a Passing Grade?

[Erik]

Sometimes i wish my school inflated grades.

Sometimes I wish I inflated my own grades.

[Stephen]

Sometimes I wish I inflated my own grades.

I can never find the blowhole.

[jeff_b]

Yes, I know what it meant, tough-guy.
... p.s. there are plenty of people that are "smart fuckers" that don't have degrees. I think we can all agree that, just like the US dollar, the worth of a college degree is quickly depreciating...
ah, fuck it. nevermind.

You're a funny fucker.

[TheEtaUnderdog]

oh yes the value of a college degree is depreciating. I don't know what world you're living on, but I got a bump in salary when I got my undergrad, and if I get my masters I get a 15% bump again. Maybe engineering is just awesome like that.

Of course, I could have just decided to struggle with a bunch of startups, fail a bunch of times and hope to get lucky once, that usually works out, right?

[scabzzzz]

I have close friends that attend ivy league schools and state run colleges that will protest the original post. All of them probably

[Kruzen]

Yes, I know what it meant, tough-guy. I've just never heard of someone referring to the "Ivy League" schools as "IV". It seems, ummm, beneath those type of individuals.
If you did that to poke fun at the kind of people that attend those type of schools, then I totally missed it.
... p.s. there are plenty of people that are "smart fuckers" that don't have degrees. I think we can all agree that, just like the US dollar, the worth of a college degree is quickly depreciating...
ah, fuck it. nevermind.

From 2008..

Baum's research showed that college graduates earn, on average, about $20,000 a year more than those who finished their educations at high school. Add that up over a 40-year working life and the total differential is about $800,000, she figures. But since much of that bonus is earned many years from now, subtracting out the impact of inflation means that $800,000 in future dollars is worth only about $450,000 in today's dollars.

Then, if you subtract out the cost of a college degree—about $30,000 in tuition and books for students who get no aid and attend public in-state universities—and the money a student could have earned at a job instead of attending school, the real net value in today's dollars is somewhere in the $300,000 range, a number confirmed by other studies.

Meh.

[Rigmaster]

You're a funny fucker.

And while I don't know you, you come across as an ignorant fucker.


IV........... ha.

[cholyoke]

Brown has an option for courses where, rather than assigning a grade, the professor will write out a detailed description of the student's performance in the course and that is part of the permanent record. So not the same as your standard letter grade, but still details your performance. Almost no students take this option because transcripts are key for jobs. I only knew one student that took this option while I was there. He was an African History major and was taking an upper level geology course for fun. I don't know if he took this option for all of his courses, but for something outside of your major, it is a decent option. I don't think he needed to worry about his GPA, he was at least as bright and worked as hard as the rest of the students who were majors and had more background geology courses under their belt. I knew a couple of students that had failed this course and were retaking it to complete the major, so students at Brown do recieve failing grades.

If your kid can get into Brown and likes the school and its education philosophy, then by all means, go. I loved my time there as a grad student and don't know an undergrad that didn't enjoy their experience.

[joshh]

Kiss your hippie global warming loving liberal professors asses?