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To: longnshort who wrote (88824)	11/19/2004 3:34:56 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 108807

now no one gets an 'F' Well, we would not want to hurt anyone's self esteem.....

To: longnshort who wrote (88824)	11/19/2004 3:39:21 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

That may be as may be- but the typical applicant accepted at Stanford is more impressive, at least on paper, than the typical applicant at some state university without the pulling power of the top universities. That's all I'm saying. Grade inflation is a completely separate issue (imo) that you are now introducing- I'd be happy to talk about it, but I want you to realize we are now entering into a new topic area. Grade inflation is everywhere- from highschool on up through all the colleges- and has quite a bit to do with the new softer gentler way our society wants to handle people, in that we don't want to brand people as failures. Now, while I understand why some people are worried about grade inflation, I also think grades can be a poor metric for a person's worth as a future worker, or even, as a future student- since young people often change quite significantly through their late teens and twenties in terms of their abilities to handle academia. In other words, it's a very complicated issue (imo) and I can't give you a one sentence summation of my views on the matter. This little paragraph doesn't even come close to summing them up- but I DO understand both the need to have grades mean something, and the competing value of not crushing students so totally by grading that they accept the labels schools may put upon them.