<p>Any old UCSC grads out there who have had problems with continuing/advancing their careers due to getting narrative evaluations at UCSC instead of letter grades???</p>
<p>My narrative evaluations from Santa Cruz are currently the bane of my existence!! All the intransigent bureaucrats at other academic institutions REFUSE to actually read my glowing (and objectively quantitative) evaluations of my academic performance at UCSC, and they automatically default these evals to a minimally passing C grade!!</p>
<p>This is a huge problems for those of us who have wanted to get into other competitive academic programs!!! Anyone else out there try to fight UCSC about this?? I LOVED going to UCSC in the 80's but I wish someone would sue them for refusing to convert all their Narrative Evaluations into letter grades!! I should have had a 3.8 GPA, but instead I'm struggling to get into programs with an embarrassing low (and inacurrate!) GPA of 2.5.</p>
<p>Incredibly, 30 years ago evaluations caused me a real problem applying to nursing school and I figured they had solved this dilemma. I was told then, you need to have a provost or someone else similar read your evaluations and translate them into grades. I never did this as I managed to get into SFSU nursing program with 3 classes from Cabrillo and one “C” from UCSC which was my pass in general psych. </p>
<p>And the best part was, they transferred in all of my 60 credits in with the GPA from those 4 classes. Good luck.</p>
<p>All UCSC graduates should be thankful to Chancellor George Blumenthal and his vision for UCSC that has raised this institutions stature year after year, and who recently boasted about the high academics and diversity of its student body, and that UCSC now grades each and every one of them. Lot of us UCSC graduates struggled throughout the 80’s after seeing mostly just the top UCSC graduates chosen for elite law, medical, and graduate school programs. From my experience besides from graduating, academic achievement counts for little after 5 years and even less after a decade. Blame the decision of a teenager who chose to go there in the first place, not the student evaluation system in place at the time and the fact that you don’t have a total GPA from there. What leads to success in life is hard work, UCSC was just a stop on the road to getting there that helped make all of us, UCSC alumnus who we are today.</p>