<p>What’s WPI?</p>
<p>Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where you receive only A, B, C, or NR.</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of that place before. Hmm so why did a lot of people get MIT’s policies mixed up with that place?</p>
<p>Diivio, because in the article posted by the OP, both MIT’s and WPI’s grading policies were mentioned in the same paragraph, and hence became transposed with each other in the resulting discussion. </p>
<p>Here is the actual text of the original paragraph, to dispel any lingering confusion. </p>
<p>*Some private schools have also adjusted their grading policies to ease some of the pressure on STEM students. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has long given freshmen only “pass” or “no record” grades in the first half of the year while they get used to the workload. W.P.I. lets undergraduates take up to three classes for which no grade is recorded if they would have received less than a C. Any required courses would have to be repeated. *</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/education/edlife/why-science-majors-change-their-mind-its-just-so-darn-hard.html?pagewanted=3&_r=2[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/education/edlife/why-science-majors-change-their-mind-its-just-so-darn-hard.html?pagewanted=3&_r=2</a></p>
<p>ahh kk thanks Sakky!</p>