<p>Your sense of entitlement is astounding. He’s allowed to grade as he sees fit.</p>
<p>It’s a freaking A-. It will have exactly zero effect on your life whatsoever. Chillax.</p>
<p>It’s going to affect my UGPA which will be converted into an LSDAS GPA which will factor immensely into what law schools I can get into.</p>
<p>No. He’s not allowed to grade as he sees fit. I’m going to expose him and embarrass him in front of his colleagues if he doesn’t do the right thing and give me an A.</p>
<p>Wow. Are you ■■■■■■■■, man? At least you got a rubric. In my computer science class, we were flying blind. I had points taken off because I didn’t put headers in my code, and I would never have thought to appeal. You learn from your mistakes and move on. Such is life.</p>
<p>No I’m not ■■■■■■■■. I want my frickin A and I’m going to get it, even if I have to appeal to the department dean.</p>
<p>RoxSox, A- is a 3.75 (in most schools I think), and will RUIN a 4.0 gpa. Didn’t you look at that featured thread on law school admissions? GPA is king, and you need at least a 4.0 to get into a decent law school.</p>
<p>Actually, an A- is a 3.6666666</p>
<p>A+ = 4.333333
A = 4.000000
A - = 3.66666666
B + = 3.333333333</p>
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<p>BUT the program is fully functional and bug free! It computes pi and returns the correct value. You can’t arbitrarily penalize me for not using a for-loop - I know that you hate me because you can’t stand the thought of an English major outsmarting your precious CS majors! I will get the A I deserve, even if I have to embarrass you in front of a departmental committee or push the issue all the way to the Provost!!!</p>
<p>Next time, if the professor wants to discourage non-standard solutions, he better include “getting the point of the assignment” in his rubric. That will teach him!</p>
<p>I wonder why he doesn’t like you…</p>
<p>OK now he responded to me with a condescending and inflammatory e-mail daring me to go to the department chairperson.</p>
<p>That’s exactly what I’m going to do on Monday. Next time, he should learn to be specific about what he expects for a final exam project. He can’t take points away for missing elements he never said were required on either the rubric or the exam paper. It’s completely irrational.</p>
<p>that’s how you show 'em, liberal arts major!</p>
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I can’t count the number of times a 3.91 GPA student is rejected when they could have been accepted with a 3.918 GPA.</p>
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Chill, dude.
Seriously.
I mean it
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Good point, this could be a certain angry stem major ■■■■■■■■ the liberal arts again…</p>
<p>One thing you did not mention is if you ever went to his office to discuss why he took the points off. If you didn’t, then you DESERVE your A- because you did not take the additional measures to find out what you DID WRONG.</p>
<p>I e-mailed him and this was his response:</p>
<p>“It is not my fault that the code you produced shows your lack of understanding of
how/why loops in programming are used. Functionality is worth 20 points. Your
program was barely functional in this measure, but I graded in your favor,
which you should note. Yes it worked, but it was inefficient to say the least,
and to be frank, it was a monstrosity of programming. It is not a matter of what “I wanted to see”, it is a matter of what should have been completed in order to satisfy the project, period.”</p>
<p>Quit trying to defend him. He’s clearly in the wrong. The final exam programming project only necessitated the use of a function (which I used), not a For Next loop. He cannot give me a 30/50 when I fulfilled everything the project asked for on the EXAM and it’s fully functional and serves its purpose. I’m also going to see if I can get this professor fired. I wrote a 4 page letter explaining why he’s in the wrong and I also mentioned how he sent me an e-mail for the 3rd programming project back in April and said it was worthy of a 100 and then proceeded to give me a 90 for the project. He also NEVER had the class meet for the full 2 hour and 35 minutes. We always got out at least 30 minutes early. I hope they fire him. He’s a horrible man.</p>
<p>I should also mention for that 3rd programming project he praised my use of the For Next loop so it’s a bit ironic that now he’s speaking in this condescending tone to me about my “lack of understanding of loops.”</p>
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That’s actually kind of reasonable. It’s like if you took a class on how to work a calculator and your teacher asked you to use the calculator to solve 2*28 and rather than putting in “2 * 28,” you put “2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2.” The point of the class isn’t to solve the one problem, it’s to learn how to properly use the device. Similarly, the point of your programming class isn’t to learn how to make the one project, it’s to learn how to properly program. I think an A- is pretty good for what you did. Like a previous poster said, if you didn’t go to your professor to find out why you were losing points earlier in the semester, you really don’t have a right to complain.</p>
<p>I can agree that one person here sounds reasonable and knowledgeable, and the other sounds arrogant and condescending.</p>
<p>BillyMc, if that was the point of the project he should have said to use a For Next loop on the Final Exam. Because the final exam didn’t necessitate a For Next loop, the understanding was that he wanted the project to run properly and achieve the desired outcome. </p>
<p>The point might be to “properly program” (Whatever that means, because my code does the exact same thing a For Next loop does so I really don’t know where you’re going with that), but going by his grading rubric and what the Final Exam asked for, it is unethical to give me an 83 on the Final Exam. According to his grading rubric, my final exam project was worthy of a 50/50 (which would be a 60/50 when you add the extra credit) which would mean I earned a 103 on the Final Exam and not an 83. </p>
<p>His subjective method of grading conflicts with the objectivity of the grading rubric he supposedly used for the final exam. If the department chairperson doesn’t listen to my side of this story I’ll go straight to the dean of academic affairs. (And I’ll make sure I record my conversation with the department chair of computer science for the dean of academic affairs to hear if the department chair decides to completely ignore me.) This is a grave injustice.</p>
<p>And btw, I already showed I know how to use the For Next loop on Programming Project 3. If he had asked for a For Next loop on the Final Exam, I would have programmed the Final Exam project that way, but he didn’t.</p>
<p>You’re going to try to get the professor fired because he gave you an A-?
PLEASE let me know how that works out for you. I really want to know.
My guess is that you’ll be laughed out of the department.</p>
<p>Either you’re a ■■■■■ or the most hilariously entitled person I’ve ever heard of.
How many more years do you have left in college? You have a lot to learn, buddy.</p>
<p>I know someone who got rejected from law school with a 3.85. He appealed, and was informed that he would have gotten in had he had something like a 3.88, so it does happen. Consequently, I fully support DreamingSmall.</p>
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<p>In a course where you got mostly B’s, yet!</p>
<p>I didn’t get mostly B’s.
Project 1- 85
Project 2- 90
Project 3 (The one where he emailed me saying it was worthy of a 100)- 90
Project 4- 90</p>
<p>10 points were taken off each project for the flowchart. When I e-mailed him in February asking for an example of flowchart that would earn the full 20 points for that element of the rubric, he conveniently chose not to respond.
Ironically enough, I got a 98 on the course mid-term and earned a 50/50 on the project for the mid-term even though I used the same flowchart format I used for the projects for which I lost 10 points each for the flowchart.</p>
<p>Of course, my gripe is about the final exam, so that’s not a big deal, but it shows you how wildly inconsistent his grading is.</p>