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[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.  I know because my kid voluntarily talks to me about how he’s doing. He wants to share his excitement when he’s doing well, and talk through his concern when something didn’t go as well as he’d hoped. When something didn’t turn out great, he’ll say something like, “but it’s ok because I have a 98 average otherwise” or “but I can drop one quiz grade” or “quizzes are only 20% of my grade” etc.  I occasionally offer “maybe you should talk to your prof” level advice but my main role is to listen.  I’d be sad if he didn’t want to talk to me at all about how he was doing. [/quote]

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