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?

Post it on TikTok?????? Why?

Don’t be such a dumbarse.

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

Why is a B considered a bad grade?

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

My first thought.
Bizarre

It seems like obvious trolling to me.

This is life. I wouldn’t encourage this behavior for my college kids unless there was a truly extenuating circumstance like a serious illness. My HS kid missed an A in an AP class by less than .10 and was devastated because he had worked hard and had a high A up until the last test that he bombed. I said you can politely ask but don’t expect a grade change. The teacher didn’t change it. I wasn’t upset with the teacher. They have to draw a line somewhere. My son learned that you can’t back off because you think you’ve got it locked up. He also learned that a B isn’t a catastrophe.

Anonymous wrote:89.55 rounds to 90 so should be an A-. Does the school's policy say an A- is greater or equal to 90.0 or 90?

According to whom?

89.55 rounds to 90 so should be an A-. Does the school's policy say an A- is greater or equal to 90.0 or 90?

Anonymous wrote:Lol you and he are going about this all wrong. It's just going to piss the professor off and reveal your son is childish and not ready for college. How stupid.

This. So stupid.

Lol you and he are going about this all wrong. It's just going to piss the professor off and reveal your son is childish and not ready for college. How stupid.

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Anonymous wrote:As a prof I always round up. Guess that's just me.

Not everyone does. Not even in high school.

My kid's high school doesn't round up either. Cut offs have to exist somewhere!

Retain counsel?

He clearly earned a B+ so I don't understand why you would complain to the professor or the dean. Not all classes round up a 89.55 to a 90. It is not up to the student to decide this. Why are you complaining to the dean and the professor?

Op, did you tell your DC to settle down about a B grade?

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

Yeah, future employers will LOVE that shit.

Pro tip, OP: No one gives a shit about college grades

Pro tip #2: employers do care about hatred, spitefulness, and lack of good judgment

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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.

AND college students are still young, inexperienced, and brain not fully developed. They do dumb things. So it's slightly more excusable, though profoundly dumb and something they may live to regret.

all the more reason why Op should be guiding him better…. The parent should know better.

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Anonymous wrote:As a prof I always round up. Guess that's just me.

Not everyone does. Not even in high school.

^^ yet another reason why admissions focusing on GPA more than standardized tests is incredibly short sighted. Too bad for this generation though.

Standardized tests are stupid because people aren’t standardized.

According to that worldview, GPAs must also be "stupid"?