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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ just to add to comment from professors above. DD got a B in a 400 level physics class. Professor decided the average was too high and lowered all grades one grade so she ended up with a C. This was after thinking she was doing well the whole semester. [/quote]

Some majors are more interested in class rank than others. Pre-med majors are like this because medical school is like this. It's a way for graduate schools to figure out how well your daughter did in terms of everyone else in her class, not by some objective measure of amount of material learned. The best grad schools want the best students in the class; they figure they are all smart enough to learn the basics.

This is very, very different from the grading system in grade school (or most university courses), where there is a certain amount of material to learn, or a certain number of points, and your grade is based on the percentage of that material you have learned. It is so different, that I think we ought to at least introduce STEM students to it in grade school even if we never actually grade them that way, because it blindsides a lot of freshmen.

The closes we come in grade school is class rank, followed by the competition to get into colleges which are based on incremental achievement over other students, rather than some kind of absolute measure of "good enough."[/quote]

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