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Re:Bribes to Get into Yale and Stanford? What Else Is New? by kasey_junk on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @09:17PM (#19374813)
Wait is non calibrated scoring the norm now? When I was in school (a terribly long time ago) classes were judged by the people that took the classes. That is the % were based in the people that took the tests.
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Re:Bribes to Get into Yale and Stanford? What Else Is New? by adamnemecek on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @09:21PM (#19374833)
You mean curved? It depends on the class I think?

And what if like, you end up with a difference between A and B being 2%.

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Re:Bribes to Get into Yale and Stanford? What Else Is New? by kasey_junk on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @09:41PM (#19374952)
Then you had a bad time & you commiserate over drinks?

Basically every class I had in college was graded amongst your cohort. Is that odd?

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Re:Bribes to Get into Yale and Stanford? What Else Is New? by adamnemecek on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @09:49PM (#19374989)
> Then you had a bad time & you commiserate over drinks?

The dynamics are a lot more complicated than you make it seem.

> Basically every class I had in college was graded amongst your cohort. Is that odd?

I've also had classes that were graded on a curve. But that doesn't fully capture the dynamics.

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