Re:“I built a fusion reactor in my bedroom – AMA”
by delazeur on Monday July 18, 2016 @08:25PM
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That's probably not true. I have run into very few faculty who want to have robots working for them, and I know quite a few faculty who are suspicious of perfect transcripts from potential grad students because it often means they avoided difficult courses or outside projects.
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Re:“I built a fusion reactor in my bedroom – AMA”
by wallace_f on Monday July 18, 2016 @10:22PM
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>quite a few faculty who are suspicious of perfect transcripts
In an undergrad department meeting, the topic was brought up on "why your parents should not call or arrive at the school seeking to talk to professors about their student's grades."
It's an open secret at some schools, Harvard being one of the most famous, that if you're rich or well-connected enough, you get in and coast with a B average, with relative ease--a C average at the worst.