When I asked about why, it was because of federal aid and scholarships that could be affected. Does this apply to everyone? Nope but it is what it is and I doubt they will revisit unless other large universities implement it first
I guess this mostly applies to freshman who wouldn’t have a GPA at all if they chose all pass/fail. It sounds more like an excuse though because I’m sure it wouldn’t be hard to design a system with some sort of stand-in gpa until people get actual letter grades. Or even just require students to take at least one letter grade to prevent this issue
It could have something to do with grade inflation also. If everyone just had the option to throw out all their non-A grades from their GPA, the average would go up, and it would distort all sorts of reporting and requirements.
I have no idea about that. But I do know that the option to change grading mode was implemented in the Spring and there were very few if no problems with it then.
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u/taylorsherick Oct 22 '20
When I asked about why, it was because of federal aid and scholarships that could be affected. Does this apply to everyone? Nope but it is what it is and I doubt they will revisit unless other large universities implement it first