<p>Is anybody still missing grades?</p>
<p>Yeah, Intermediate Macroeconomics with Xavier. </p>
<p>Whoops, I guess narrows down my identity to one of 317 people. Oh well ;)</p>
<p>longest i’ve ever had to wait for a grade: Ethics for Biomedical Engineers with Jeffery Holmes in the Fall…he didn’t submit a grade until three weeks into the Spring semester!!</p>
<p>so, yea, don’t worry, you’ll get it…eventually</p>
<p>D: They don’t have a deadline or something? Greaaat, looks like I won’t be getting my Linguistics grade for several <em>more</em> weeks.</p>
<p>D: They don’t have a deadline by the time second semester begins or something? Greeeat, looks like I won’t be getting my Linguistics grade for several <em>more</em> weeks. ><</p>
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<p>there is a “deadline” but the more arrogant, egotistical, or lazy the professor is the less they think the “deadline” applies to them.</p>
<p>btw, i don’t remember when the deadline is but i’m quite sure it has passed</p>
<p>For seminars, the deadline is two weeks after the last class. Otherwise, the deadline is two weeks after the last class.</p>
<p>Bwog has a naughty list posted here:</p>
<p>[The</a> Bwog](<a href=“http://www.bwog.net/articles/the_naughty_list]The”>http://www.bwog.net/articles/the_naughty_list)</p>
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<p>There’s this thing called tenure…</p>
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<p>the prof i mentioned wasn’t tenured and is no longer at columbia</p>
<p>plus if u look down bwog’s list i’m sure half those profs aren’t tenured</p>
<p>though i’m not dismissing tenure as one possible explanation i think that arrogant/egotistical/lazy covers all the bases.</p>
<p>If the university were smart, they’d do something like giving the profs their final pay check when the grade sheets are submitted. But not gonna happen.</p>
<p>Yeah, one of the profs on that list was my Lit Hum prof last year. Definitely not tenured.</p>
<p>To be fair though, some of those tests are very time-intensive to grade but that’s still not an excuse, especially when you have an army of TAs to do the grading for you.</p>
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yeah, because their employment contract probably says that they are salaried and are paid biweekly, or semimonthly, and doesn’t give any provisos about receiving that check conditionally on stuff.</p>
<p>and something tells me if they started inserting that into their professors’ employment contracts, they’d get quite a backlash. it’s not something “smart” to do when the possible downside is that professors quit and go to your competitors, while the upside is that some students get some of their grades a little faster.</p>
<p>^^ this thread made me laugh. </p>
<p>It also reminded me of a time sophomore year when a friend and I were in physics together–the entire class got its grade a few weeks into the summer(late), but poor JW never did. Turns out the prof <em>lost</em> his exam, so he had to retake it. I can’t quite remember what happened after, but I don’t think he got his grade until well into the fall :P</p>
<p>It was sorta funny, actually, by the end of it.</p>
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<p>It’s more likely to work for adjunct professors. (It’d be like like a construction contract where the contractor gets milestone payments and gets the final payment when the job is complete.) In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if at some schools they already have some sort of arrangement where they’re paid in a non-traditional manner (not biweekly / semimonthly). Are adjuncts even employees rather than ind contractors?</p>
<p>“It’s more likely to work for adjunct professors. (It’d be like like a construction contract where the contractor gets milestone payments and gets the final payment when the job is complete.)”</p>
<p>no, this too doesn’t have any upside, the profs aren’t liquidity constrained. Your system only delays their salary until grades are in, inflation isn’t hurting anyone and they still know that they’ll receive full pay at the end of it. In order to monetarily motivate them you will need to pay them less for later grade submissions, and this becomes unfairly discriminatory against classes which intrinsically take longer to grade. Moreover, you’ll have a visible moral hazard where professors tailor their exams to be quicker to grade (true/false, multiple choice, more objective answers when a full thought process is preferred). ow, and have fun with the backlash.</p>
<p>i’m still missing my comp sci 1007 grade, but the teacher emailed us the grades a few weeks ago (ie i have the grade but its not up on ssol). </p>
<p>also in lieu of this question, i have another: whats a good GPA for a first semester freshman? i’m obviously used to high school so i dont yet have an idea of what would be “bad” what would be “acceptable” and what would be “above average”, etc.</p>
<p>Mean for CC floats around a 3.3 but I’m not sure if that’ll be useful to you. </p>
<p>All depends on how many credits you took, difficulty of the classes and what you want to do with the GPA. In any case, higher is better.</p>
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<p>as long as you have a 3.5+ GPA by the time u graduate then everyone will agree that you did “well” in college. for a lot of competitive jobs that have a minimum GPA requirement they are usually looking for 3.5 or greater. For med school the target GPA is 3.6 or higher (of course i had to mention this). </p>
<p>In general though you absolutely do not want to have a cumulative GPA < 3.0 when u graduate!</p>
<p>sorry to hijack this thread, but since you mentioned medical school…</p>
<p>if you go to a lesser-known school…are you required to maintain a higher gpa (and get a higher MCAT) than if you go to a high-ranked school? Or do medical schools not take rankings/prestige/ into account at all when evaluating applicants?</p>
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<p>whether the prestige of your undergrad school matters in med school admissions has been discussed to death on another forum that shall remain nameless. From my experience of going through the application process i think that this differs from school to school but i definitely felt that the ivy league schools (and ivy-caliber schools) were overrepresented at interviews. Whether or not there is any preference for more prestigious schools, this would not translate into devaluing a GPA or MCAT score…though I strongly feel that not all GPAs are created equal and am sure that med school adcoms look at the GPA in the context of your school and major…however all MCAT scores are created equal and a 40 is equally spectacular if u went to a community college or Harvard.</p>