<p>So I received my grades today and am really concerned about one of them. I had a 3.09 and just got a C+ in a class. I feel that my GSI graded way harsher than all the other GSI's (I had friends in the other sections). She gave me a bad grade on a research paper intended to enlighten us (the students), not to be graded based on the fact that there exists about 800 pages worth of information that I could have included (obviously, in a 9 page research paper, that is not an option). How would I go about petitioning my grade? Also, is a C+ detrimental in my freshman year? I want to be an Economics major and was wondering if they take breadths into consideration, or just Econ prereqs? Is there any way to change this grade to P/NP now?</p>
<p>a C+ in breadth sucks, but it is not the end of the world (well for Haas it might be, but in most other cases it isn’t). As long as your overall GPA is above 2.0 you should be fine for declaring an econ major.</p>
<p>As for petitioning, my guess is the best you could do is get it up to a B-, which might not have any real effect on your GPA. Last summer I got a C in Stat 134 (I needed to take a stat class but didn’t realize that I signed up for a stat major course), I was considering trying to petition for a C+, but then I realized that even if I got the grade bump, my overall GPA would have only changed by about .01. Meaning of the story: calculate how much your petition would affect your GPA before you spend the time seeking it out.</p>
<p>2.0? You mean 3.0 right?</p>
<p>oh yea 3.0, i forgot that econ was capped for a second</p>
<p>How do you petition a grade? </p>
<p>Do you mean emailing the GSI/prof? Or is there actually a process through the student ombudsman?</p>
<p>It’s very hard to petition. Grades are usually finalized for a reason, meaning the prof. would be very unlikely to be swayed by persuasion</p>
<p>i suck at breadths</p>
<p>GAH!
I had a bad GSI this semester too… ■■■ :(</p>
<p>Is there any way to change anything?</p>
<p>I seriously felt that I should have gotten an A… :S
Except my GSI sucks, and I disliked her… and she sorta knew it :S</p>
<p>gah… any suggestions?</p>
<p>Edit:
the difference in GPA is big enough to make a difference… at least in my head</p>
<p>This is kind of a long shot, but I too had an exceptionally terrible female GSI this semester. I too received an unusually low score on a 9 page research paper…</p>
<p>Curious, what class did you guys take?</p>
<p>I received a low grade (B-) on a first/rough draft (15% of my grade) which brought my grade down from an A-/A to a B+. The officially allotted time to complete the first draft was 9 days after receiving the prompt, but the GSI had actually allowed some students more time without letting the rest of the class know (I found out from one of the students). During this time, I was extremely busy and my first draft reflected this (which I assumed would be graded as a rough draft). If I was allowed the same extension others received, my first draft would have been drastically better.</p>
<p>Does this sound familiar to anyone?</p>
<p>Sometimes life is unfair, but you have to deal with it. I got a 93% in an English class which translated to a A- and which brought my GPA down by .05, but hey, that’s life.</p>
<p>Oh please, don’t spew that ******** ‘that’s life, man’ or ‘life isn’t fair’ ish here. Of course it isn’t, but the university procedures ought to be fair, and, in fact, they are by policy supposed to be fair. </p>
<p>Have you ever wondered why students with reading disabilities are allowed longer amounts of time on exams? Is it because the university feels sorry for them? No, it’s to approximate a fair atmosphere where their deficiencies are remedied to “level the playing field” so to speak.</p>
<p>I guess, you know, all those darn, meddling minorities beseeching equality should have sat back in their shackles (literal and figurative) repeating to themselves in some disgusting comfort “sometimes life is unfair, sometimes life is unfair, sometimes life is unfair.” I don’t know why we even have this civil rights movement thing, don’t they realize life isn’t fair??</p>
<p>Ironically, the title of my course was “Inequality in American Democracy.”</p>
<p>There is no such thing as fair. Two people could be taking the same class with different profs, one giving 20% As and the other giving 35% As. In the end the only thing anyone sees is the course name with a letter grade next to it. Is that fair? Also, two people could have two different GSIs. One who grades based on the performance of the students, and the other which ranks the entire class. The latter just so happens to have a “higher achieving” group of students, leaving some who would have gotten As to get Bs instead. Is that fair? </p>
<p>This isn’t a matter of inequality on a large scale. Asian students don’t come to the university with a -.5 GPA. It is just the bad luck of having a harsh GSI. There is no way to petition this. Just accept the fact and move on.</p>