failing a wharton class?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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<p>Hey guys,</p>

<p>There is a popular adage at Penn - "It's impossible to fail a Wharton class."</p>

<p>Well, I think I might be the exception to the rule. I just got out of the midterm for my finance 100 class, which I've spent the last two days studying for. There is no way I got over a 60 because I didn't know how to do the last 2 problem sets out of 5. I think I did the first three well though.</p>

<p>So, have you or has someone you know ever failed a Wharton class? Or am I just being irrational in reaction to a hard exam?</p>

<p>I'm taking this P/F anyway, but a F would not be pleasing to the eyes of Nkonye Iwerebon, the dean of admissions at Columbia law. If I learn that I got the lowest score in the class, I'm going to take my W and move on.</p>

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<p>Nkonye Iwerebon buys crack cocaine and opium from my father, you'll be fine chocoman</p>

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<p>People can and do fail. It's usually only a few people in harder courses, and usually only when they pretty much bomb everything in the class. Some teachers curve everything such that worst-case-scenario ends up being something like a C-, but if your performance pushes that limit beyond reasonable doubt, they do assign lower marks.</p>

<p>You won't fail the class as a result of getting sub-60 on one midterm though, lol. Chillax a bit. People who literally fail are usually kids who take something they just absolutely hate and don't understand or care about. I just looked up the distribution from my math class freshman year. 3 kids got D's and 2 received F's. However, to get those kind of scores, it seems pretty clear that they just didn't try, or they took a class that was way out of their skill level.</p>

<p>Just so you get an idea (again, this is for my Math class freshman year. The number represents the weighted raw score, churned out after combining the midterm/final/quiz scores):</p>

<p>76 - 100 A (36 students)
74 - 75 A- (8 students)</p>

<p>72 - 73 B+ (5 students)
65 - 71 B (30 students)
63 - 64 B- (3 students)</p>

<p>62 C+ (3 students)
47 - 61 C (30 students)
45 - 46 C- (4 students)</p>

<p>40 - 44 D (3 students)</p>

<p>39 - 0 F (2 students)</p>

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<p>Choco OOPS</p>

<p>By the way, I do believe that a W on your transcript is counted as a 0 when Law Schools recalculate your gpa. Check that.</p>

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<p>What does W stand for?</p>

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<p>Withdrawal (from life) aka Wharton</p>

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<p>Withdraw doesn't count against you when it comes to law school. woohoo.</p>

<p>I'm feeling a lot better today. I probably got a solid D+/C-.</p>

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<p>UPDATE: I got a 43, which is at the very bottom of the standard deviation. Mean was 59.</p>

<p>So I guess I got a solid C/C-. woohoo.</p>

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<p>maybe that will teach you a lesson on doing drugs at penn</p>

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<p>UPDATE: A pretty little P appeared on my transcript yesterday, after I spent only a few hours studying for the final. Yay - No suicide for me.</p>

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<p>What a retarded curve... 76 for an A?</p>

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<p>It's based on class performance. Few get 90+. The curve helps you in these cases.</p>

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<p>
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Few get 90+.

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not at real universities</p>

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<p>haha
10 chars</p>

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<p>legendofmax,</p>

<p>was that class math 104 ? is the curve in that class similar to chem and physics curves?</p>

<p>thanx</p>

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<p>Yeah that was 104. Don't know about Chem or Physics as I haven't taken those courses.</p>

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<p>Generally, one standard deviation above and below the mean suggests approximate cutoffs between an A and B and between a B and C.</p>

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<p>
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not at real universities

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</p>

<p>Funniest comment of this thread.
If only because it's true.</p>

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<p>Chem isn't too tough here if you are doing 101 and 102 in the college. Most of the material is straight forward and if you spend the time to learn it and do the practice problems you should do well. If you have Dr. P. it really isn't too difficult (he teaches the SEAS sections and the SAS sections once in a while) because all of his practice problems are just like the tests. If you don't wait till the last minute you can learn how to do every problem that will appear on the test. The only problem with SEAS chem is that the averages can be higher, but that tends to happen when your competition is made up of CBE and BE majors in SEAS versus the premeds in the college.</p>

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<p>legendofmax, who was your math 104 professor?</p>

<p>thanx</p>