Missing Grades

Colleges & Universities A-Z Columbia University
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<p>I am STILL missing a grade. Why?</p>

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<p>Yeah me too. The parentals are flipping **** about it too. Ugh.</p>

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<p>why not email the professor and ask when you can expect to see your grade online? that’s fairly nonconfrontational.</p>

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<p>I emailed the head TA yesterday.</p>

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<p>I’d advise against this. No upside. Downside risk is that, if grading is subjective and your professor is moody and irrational, you get “pain in the a__” status in his mind and it reflects in your grade.</p>

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<p>i agree with this …definitely don’t want to do anything to tick off the prof right before he/she is going to hand out grades. just shut up and wait…you’ll get the grade eventually</p>

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<p>Yeah, kept it very polite. I didn’t ask why the grades are posted, just if they had a general idea of when they’d be available. I tried to make sure that I wasn’t demanding, just making a harmless inquiry. Of course, they might still nuke me.</p>

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<p>There’s no upside. It’s not going to get your grades faster. You don’t need to know when. They’ll post when they post.</p>

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<p>I think a gentle and polite inquiry will make it stand out in their mind that they are inconveniencing other people, and the chance exists that they’ll get on it faster. Phrased in a non-obnoxious fashion, I see no reason the downside has any odds of happening.</p>

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<p>Because all professors are completely rational and level-headed people?</p>

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<p>I take it this means bribes?</p>

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<p>“I take it this means bribes?”</p>

<p>Sexual favours, actually.</p>

<p>C02: I guess it’ll depend on the professor, presumably a student has spent enough time in class to suss out whether the profs a flake or busy or what have you. In which case it might make sense to shoot him/her an email. If the teacher’s bipolar or has coronary heart disease, he/she might be having an off day…</p>

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<p>I don’t know how some of you may feel, but it is incredibly frustrating to be still missing a grade.</p>

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<p>I just got Macro today. Apparently, the TA was out of the country and couldn’t get to email.</p>

<p>What grade are you still missing morningside?</p>

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<p>karot, as of right now I’m still missing a grade in history. it seems absolutely ridiculous to be missing a grade one week before the start of the spring semester. what should i do?</p>

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<p><em>ahem</em> a little white lie can help:</p>

<p>Hi (your TA/professor’s name)</p>

<p>I’m wondering when the grades for (class name) will be available. I actually have several scholarships that require me to resubmit my GPA every semester to keep getting my scholarships and I can’t do so until all my grades are in for this semester. Could you give me an idea of when the grades will go up so I can ask for an extension?</p>

<p>Thanks,</p>

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<p>why several?? if its a flat out lie at least just keep it singular…it’s more believable </p>

<p>I think if you don’t actually NEED your grades right now for a purpose like that which karot stated then just relax and forget about it.</p>

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<p>I was careful to not say that I NEEDED the grade. I really try to emphasize that you’re not pushing them to submit it, but just an idea of when it can come is nice so that you can ask for an extension. In my mind, you don’t come off as too much of a nervous wreck and helps to remind the professor that the grade is important to things other than your sanity.</p>

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<p>The bottom line is that nobody really NEEDS their grade - or to know when it’s going to post. You people waited longer for AP results or college application news. Calm down!</p>

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<p>Patience is a virtue, possess it if you can. Seldom found in woman, never found in man.</p>