MY son got a 89.55 B+ in a course........

[Anonymous]

He could always threaten the professor, especially if he is bigger than the prof.

That's what a guy I know did in college. Got his grade up from a D to a C.

[Anonymous]

The A students work for the B students, the C students own the company, and the dropouts invented the product the company makes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Future employers won’t hold a B+ against him but they may count that TikTok video against him!

THIS.

Nothing is ever truly, completely gone from social media, OP. Learn that, and teach your son that. It is also absolutely true that many employers can and do look at job applicants' social media. If you don't believe that, or your son doesn't believe it, you are incredibly naive. Stupid posts, ranting posts, drunken posts, and yes, posts whining about grades can come back to bite him in the butt--even if he thinks he deleted them effectively.

[Anonymous]

Can you please link the Tik tok for us?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ha! That's nothing. I got a 93 B. The graded down on the curve after the fact. Spoke to the dean nothing I could do. Academia is so corrupt.

Sophomore year of college, I failed a class with an 88.5% thanks to the curve. The passing cutoff was set at 89. Had to retake it the next year. I got a 95 - the passing grade that year was 73. I hate curves. You know the material or don’t, it shouldn’t matter what anyone else knows.

I truly don’t understand what OP or the kid hope to achieve by posting on TikTok.

Curves that brutal are mostly used in weed out classes where they only want a certain number to advance in the major that year. That's why engineering and CS grades tend to be lower because nearly everyone who advances got a C in the weed out classes no matter how many they got right on the final. Typically the engineers who have the perfect GPAs are simply the one who had the highest score in that one weed out class (and why there is a pretty low min GPA cut off for engineering interviews, since nearly everyone has a C or 2 by design).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would you post about your bad grade on Tik tok?

It's the new way for people to shame companies/others to get what they want.

I've seen several videos on TT this week of students posting emails asking their professors to bump their high B grades to an A-. Most post full professor names and emails, too, fully knowing that they are going to get slammed with emails from followers. One young woman had to post a video pleading with her followers to stop emailing her professor because it wasn't helping her cause. Gee, you don't say!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there anything he can do? He emailed the professor To boost his grade to an A-. no respond from the professor he emailed the Dean and will be posting this on Tiktok.. Is there anything else he can do?

Profs and teachers that do this are dicks, imo.

I’ve been On the receiving end of this both ways. The one that boosted it the .5 recognized my work, attendance, class participation etc. and said the .5 was within the range of error, essentially.

The other one was being a hardass because he could. And I loathe ppl like that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would you post about your bad grade on Tik tok?

It's the new way for people to shame companies/others to get what they want.

I've seen several videos on TT this week of students posting emails asking their professors to bump their high B grades to an A-. Most post full professor names and emails, too, fully knowing that they are going to get slammed with emails from followers. One young woman had to post a video pleading with her followers to stop emailing her professor because it wasn't helping her cause. Gee, you don't say!

Unbelievably stupid move

[Anonymous]

This is a troll. No reasonable person emails the dean begging for a higher grade. That's absurd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there anything he can do? He emailed the professor To boost his grade to an A-. no respond from the professor he emailed the Dean and will be posting this on Tiktok.. Is there anything else he can do?

Sheesh! You'd think they'd round it up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there anything he can do? He emailed the professor To boost his grade to an A-. no respond from the professor he emailed the Dean and will be posting this on Tiktok.. Is there anything else he can do?

Profs and teachers that do this are dicks, imo.

I’ve been On the receiving end of this both ways. The one that boosted it the .5 recognized my work, attendance, class participation etc. and said the .5 was within the range of error, essentially.

The other one was being a hardass because he could. And I loathe ppl like that.

A college student that posts about it on TikTok is a bigger dick.

[Anonymous]

OP, the prof thinks he's a B+ student. The numeric score is almost unimportant. The class is curved, the class grade distribution generally set, and prof has him grouped with the other B students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ha! That's nothing. I got a 93 B. The graded down on the curve after the fact. Spoke to the dean nothing I could do. Academia is so corrupt.

Sophomore year of college, I failed a class with an 88.5% thanks to the curve. The passing cutoff was set at 89. Had to retake it the next year. I got a 95 - the passing grade that year was 73. I hate curves. You know the material or don’t, it shouldn’t matter what anyone else knows.

I truly don’t understand what OP or the kid hope to achieve by posting on TikTok.

That's crazy! My objection was that at no time was that the stated grading scale nor was I given feedback that would indicate I should improve. They really didn't care. All they cared about was how they looked "hard" on paper to the university.

PP here. Yeah, the lack of feedback was the real problem. I was tracking my grades all along and figured a high-80s score would probably be a B, maybe a C if the curve was really bad. At no point did I get any indication that I was in danger of failing. I was floored when the grades came out. I actually did go in to the prof to try and appeal, but he did not care one bit. Just told me to work harder next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there anything he can do? He emailed the professor To boost his grade to an A-. no respond from the professor he emailed the Dean and will be posting this on Tiktok.. Is there anything else he can do?

Profs and teachers that do this are dicks, imo.

I’ve been On the receiving end of this both ways. The one that boosted it the .5 recognized my work, attendance, class participation etc. and said the .5 was within the range of error, essentially.

The other one was being a hardass because he could. And I loathe ppl like that.

A college student that posts about it on TikTok is a bigger dick.

Both of those things can be correct. One does not excuse the other, in either direction.

[Anonymous]

Ha ha. Suckers.