Hey everyone, I don't know if you got my first blog about starting this discussion forum on schools and jobs so bloggers can learn about different education and employment opportunities across the country. Alright, so I'm a freshman at Cornell University. Most of you probably know about it already but if not, it's the largest of the ivies and considered the easiest to get into.
My first forum discussion is to put some of the rumors about Cornell to rest. As an Ivy league, many think that Cornell practices what Harvard is also alleged of doing which is grade inflation. Uh yeah, that's a definite "no." Proof? Well, we're considered to have the hardest bio 101 class in the nation and I learned something interesting about the Signapore Scholars program. If you know more about this and I make some mistakes, feel free to comment on it.
Anyway, so the country of Signapore (the little one that I think is on the tip of Malaysia) sends students to the U.S. to prestigious universities. The government pays for four years of the scholar's schooling and then the scholar has to come back and work for the government for a certain amount of time. At least that's what one of the participants told me. The country of Signapore chooses universities for their scholars that they believe do not practice grade inflation. This is because they require their scholars to keep at least a 3.8 and guess which university was not on the list... Harvard! I'm not saying that Harvard is a bad school by any means and I'm not confirming that they do in fact practice grade inflation. However, the nation of Signapore does.
So myth number one: all ivies practice grade inflation...no. Alright, so I'll admit the mean grade for my first prelims were pretty high, but that's because I'm in a lot of intro courses where the grades are a little higher and students are still mostly freshmen who were dedicated to maintaining their highschool perfect records.
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