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Re:Grade Inflation at UC Riverside, and Institutional Pressu... by jhbadger on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @06:16PM (#39376950)
One of the amusing things I encountered in grad school was taking a course where both grad students and undergraduates were allowed. The course was curved for the reasons you mentioned but what was interesting was that the grad students and undergraduates were curved separately. To protect the undergraduates, right? Actually as it turned out the grad students scored worse on average!
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Re:Grade Inflation at UC Riverside, and Institutional Pressu... by Jensson on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @06:24PM (#39377013)
The courses that the motivated and smart grad students take are typically not available to undergrad students. I took a lot of grad courses in undergrad, and then as a grad students I never studied with any undergrads since I had already taken those courses.
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Re:Grade Inflation at UC Riverside, and Institutional Pressu... by Marsymars on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @06:41PM (#39377163)
Though that wouldn't apply for motivated and smart grad students that are doing grad studies in a different discipline than their undergrad.
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Re:Grade Inflation at UC Riverside, and Institutional Pressu... by Jensson on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @07:02PM (#39377331)
But basically all of the undergrad students taking grad courses are motivated and smart.
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Re:Grade Inflation at UC Riverside, and Institutional Pressu... by sudosysgen on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @09:45PM (#39378519)
Depends on the university. At mine in CS you could take literally any grad course you wanted so long as the professor didn't mind (and they had no reason to mind), even if you didn't have any of the prerequisites. I learnt a lot that way.
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Re:Grade Inflation at UC Riverside, and Institutional Pressu... by biophysboy on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @08:56PM (#39378212)
Speaking from my own grad student experience, there is very little incentive to have a good GPA. Research is everything
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Re:Grade Inflation at UC Riverside, and Institutional Pressu... by fooker on Thursday February 15, 2024 @02:49AM (#39380141)
Of course the grad students scored worse, they are unlikely to be asked about their grades ever again in their life if they are doing well with research and networking.

Undergrads on the other hand, a bad grade means screened out of interviews.

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