Grade Inflation at Harvard
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We didn't do GPA's in England, but it's no secret that I fucked up royally with my undergraduate degree in maths and physics.
EE was something I kind of fell into accidentally, although I think it would be rather flattering to refer to what I do as actual electrical engineering.
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I guess the game played by colleges is to place their undergrads in good grad schools.
I went to a Canadian engineering school - they couldn't care less about your GPA. In fact, some of the old school guys wanted to weed out the weak ones early and get them to switch majors. Some of our classes had a 50-55% average.
I did a double undergrad program. My GPA in the engineering part was 3-3.5 (Canadian scale doesn't translate). Then in Econ it was an easy 4.0+ compared to the engineering.
Very glad I did the econ - else I wouldn't have gotten into the grad school I wanted to, and probably wouldn't have gone.
@xenon said in Grade Inflation at Harvard:
Very glad I did the econ - else I wouldn't have gotten into the grad school I wanted to, and probably wouldn't have gone.
I did the same in undergrad. My first major had the lowest grade averages, the lowest professor ratings and several of those professors made it known they had contempt for their students.
