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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ivies take the top couple percent of kids--I don't think it's grade inflation that they will mainly earn As.  More like appropriate benchmarking. So I think this is kind of a dumb question.[/quote]

This.[/quote]

Not this.  Yale, for example, allows last minute withdrawal from any course.  Well utilized to protect gpa.  Survivorship bias anyone?[/quote]

If students are allowed to withdrawal from any course last minute, not many should be graduating in 4 yrs. If a hypothetical student withdraws 1 course per semester, that's 8 courses to make up at the end of 4 years. That's a full year, 2 semesters, to make up. Assuming the student withdraws 1 class each during the 5th year, that's an extra summer or a part-time semester the 6th year. [/quote]

From my experience with schools that allow students to withdraw from courses at the last minute (and Yale is not the only one), students take more credits than they need with the expectation that they will withdraw from one.  They aren't always doing that for grade protection.  They sometimes just want to "try it before they buy it" or they don't have a good sense of the workload and want to see which one of the non-essential courses becomes too much to handle.  At some schools, though, the withdrawal has to occur before the first graded assignment.  I don't know if that is the case at Yale.[/quote]

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