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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]College gives rewrites and extra credit and many classes don’t have tests.

Also the curve is crazy.

It will be fine.[/quote]

None of my kid's professors curve. You get what you get. He said there are no retakes or extra credit. He's a junior and has had a midterm and final for every class except his fine arts class. Maybe if your kid goes to an easy state school like Towson or Salisbury, they might have these things.[/quote]

DS goes to a top 10 engineering school and he has extra credit, can drop a test, and curves in each class.  From my experience, professors tend to make exams extremely difficult to challenge the brightest students. The results are curved to reflect the class distribution. [/quote]

Is it normal to know (or even want to know) this much detail about your college kids’ professors’ grading policy? I would think that if a kid is at now a Top 10 Engineering school, his parents would be ready to step back from this level of granular awareness.  [/quote]
dp.. our DC tells us.  DC shares with us those details.  They actually like talking to us about college.  I feel sorry for parents whose kids don't talk to them.[/quote]

Seriously. I'll never understand the DCUM posters who criticize parents who know anything about their teen's lives.  I mean, what do you talk to your kids' about?  The weather? 
I honestly think these comments are made out of jealousy. [/quote]

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