<p>Do colleges offer/recognize extra credit if your grades need improvement? My HS does this and it irritates me to no end as the grade grubbers who don't as well (as they should) on tests take advantage of doing scut work to improve their grades. Does this strategy work at the top schools as well?</p>
<p>not at Cornell</p>
<p>Depends on the teacher, but very rarely. A lot of instructors will drop the lowest test grade though.</p>
<p>Agreed with joev. Generally though, it is a lot lot less than high school.</p>
<p>Although some people (premeds) still engage in grade-grubbing, professors are usually far less sympathetic to the tactic than high school teachers.</p>
<p>I can't think of the last time I was offered extra credit in college, although I'm sure it must have happened once or twice. Several of my classes have dropped the lowest test score, though.</p>
<p>The only time in college I've been offered extra credit is in psych classes. If you volunteer to be a subject in faculty or senior research, you get like two additional test points. Nothing to really get your grade up though...</p>
<p>As a college instructor, I never offer extra credit (and get irked when students ask for it.) I do, though, drop the lowest grade.</p>
<p>In many college courses (especially the larger lectures), your grade comes down to a midterm, a final, and a couple papers...it'a hardly like high school with daily homework and plenty of quizzes. There's no room for extra credit or grade grubbing...you just have to rock those few things.</p>