Lowest mark you've ever recieved for a final grade?

[xorbie]

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Degree mill.

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probably a better school than yours. i think i manage to get it done by not having to start threads like "paying someone to write your paper" and "taking finals drunk". some people seem to spend absolutely 0 effort whatsoever, even when such a minimal level is all that's needed.

[evank15]

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Degree mill.

Yes I'm bitter and jealous.

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probably a better school than yours.

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Maybe. What's your degree in? Math?

[xorbie]

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Degree mill.

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probably a better school than yours.

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Maybe. What's your degree in? Math?

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math, yes. honestly i don't really care if it's better, but it's certainly no degree mill.

[xorbie]

the other thing with ivy league schools is that a lot of the kids who get in did well in high school by sucking up to teachers and complaining about grades. this behavior continues rather successfully in college.

i know this to be true both in the high school and college end of things. i personally didn't care enough about grades in high school to ever try to get a B+ bumped to an A- or an A- to an A, so i get decent but not great grades. some of my friends went and bitch about everything and prob bumped their GPA up a point or two.

then they get to college and on top of the normal curves, everyone is going to ask the profs for extensions and extra points here and there and most of the profs and tas are prob too focused on their research to really care, particularly because the status quo seems to just be to give in.

[AceLuby]

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the other thing with ivy league schools is that a lot of the kids who get in did well in high school by sucking up to teachers and complaining about grades. this behavior continues rather successfully in college.

i know this to be true both in the high school and college end of things. i personally didn't care enough about grades in high school to ever try to get a B+ bumped to an A- or an A- to an A, so i get decent but not great grades. some of my friends went and bitch about everything and prob bumped their GPA up a point or two.

then they get to college and on top of the normal curves, everyone is going to ask the profs for extensions and extra points here and there and most of the profs and tas are prob too focused on their research to really care, particularly because the status quo seems to just be to give in.

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I don't know about most, but definitely some of them did. I thought it was demeaning for people to cry to keep their 4.0 because they are getting a B+ (yes, I saw this in HS). My college classes didn't have a whole lot of that going on though, but most of my friends were stoners so we didn't care a whole lot about that extra .3 GPA boost.

[Jeff_B]

I dropped a class where my average was like a 41% and when the teacher signed the papers he mentioned it was a B

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C, first quarter freshman year calc. I aced the first 3 quizes, at which point, I stopped attending class or trying. Apparently...the course got harder.