Anyone think the 4.33 A+ is a bit silly for the LSDAS GPA?

[Eric475]

Rice University counts A+'s as 4.3s in their transcripts. The top of their class all have like 4.2+ GPAs

What a sneaky little school

[ajmanyjah]

The fact that you think that Harvard has a good reputation (and grade inflation is mentioned) academically tells me all you needed to know. I took identical courses in both schools (mine and Harvard's) and I got a better grade at Harvard when all I did was doodle and hit on girls.

And it is funny that you think that faulty logical grounds means "unlike reputation whoring schools"...Al Gore graduated from Harvard and did not get into Vanderbilt's Seminary School...more faulty logic?

Oh, good its one of these trolls.. "My school is harder than Harvard!!".. "Psych major at my school is the hardest thing in the world".. "Al Gore was rejected from Vanderbilt's Seminary School??"(Wait I couldve sworn Gore went to and left Vandy Law)

Any more strawmen? Actually, philosophy and math/physics are the hardest at my school, if you really want to throw around bs at least make it stick

Oh, and a lot of schools are harder than Harvard. If you think anything else, you are simply misinformed or willfully ignorant.

[Matthies]

You know when I make a mental list of things not fair in life my school not giving A+ is right there at the top of that list, above I don't something trivial like birth defects.

[Knock]

Meh. It's silly, but whatever. There are many things that are for more unfair about how LSDAS counts GPA than that. I, for one, find it far more irritating that summer courses one took in high school at the ripe ol' age of 15 are supposed to matter for law school admissions.

Same. That doesn't really make sense :S. I would be above median at my target school(s) for GPA if a summer study abroad class I took when I was 15 and was more worried about my sophomore year of high school than law school weren't weighing me down .

If it weren't for a summer course I took at 15 I would be very close or at the golden 3.8 I need to get above the GPA floor.

Would you be willing to join me in months of commiserating until we get our accepted to our top choices anyways?

[ajmanyjah]

Rice University counts A+'s as 4.3s in their transcripts. The top of their class all have like 4.2+ GPAs

What a sneaky little school

I also think Rice does a pure bell curve for a lot of classes, at least they did in CompSci when my brother was there

[ajmanyjah]

You know when I make a mental list of things not fair in life my school not giving A+ is right there at the top of that list, above I don't something trivial like birth defects.

Yes, because this is the Birth Defects Admissions forum, correct?

[20121109]

The fact that you think that Harvard has a good reputation (and grade inflation is mentioned) academically tells me all you needed to know. I took identical courses in both schools (mine and Harvard's) and I got a better grade at Harvard when all I did was doodle and hit on girls.

And it is funny that you think that faulty logical grounds means "unlike reputation whoring schools"...Al Gore graduated from Harvard and did not get into Vanderbilt's Seminary School...more faulty logic?

Oh, good its one of these trolls.. "My school is harder than Harvard!!".. "Psych major at my school is the hardest thing in the world".. "Al Gore was rejected from Vanderbilt's Seminary School??"(Wait I couldve sworn Gore went to and left Vandy Law)

Any more strawmen? Actually, philosophy and math/physics are the hardest at my school, if you really want to throw around bs at least make it stick

Oh, and a lot of schools are harder than Harvard. If you think anything else, you are simply misinformed or willfully ignorant.

Curious. Please name names.

[Knock]

You know when I make a mental list of things not fair in life my school not giving A+ is right there at the top of that list, above I don't something trivial like birth defects.

Why care about something trivial like birth defects when there are people starving in China.

[094320]

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[Matthies]

You know when I make a mental list of things not fair in life my school not giving A+ is right there at the top of that list, above I don't something trivial like birth defects.

Yes, because this is the Birth Defects Admissions forum, correct?

Its a soft factor

[hellokitty]

No, I don't think it's silly. The LSDAS GPA is the same as my UG's. Not having the A+ counted that way would have seriously fucked up my gpa.

[rundoxierun]

The fact that you think that Harvard has a good reputation (and grade inflation is mentioned) academically tells me all you needed to know. I took identical courses in both schools (mine and Harvard's) and I got a better grade at Harvard when all I did was doodle and hit on girls.

And it is funny that you think that faulty logical grounds means "unlike reputation whoring schools"...Al Gore graduated from Harvard and did not get into Vanderbilt's Seminary School...more faulty logic?

Oh, good its one of these trolls.. "My school is harder than Harvard!!".. "Psych major at my school is the hardest thing in the world".. "Al Gore was rejected from Vanderbilt's Seminary School??"(Wait I couldve sworn Gore went to and left Vandy Law)

Any more strawmen? Actually, philosophy and math/physics are the hardest at my school, if you really want to throw around bs at least make it stick

Oh, and a lot of schools are harder than Harvard. If you think anything else, you are simply misinformed or willfully ignorant.

LOL, strawmen?? Anyway, who cares if Harvard is hard or not?? College is simply a screening process for 90% of attendees. The only people it is especially useful for are people who want to go into academia. Harvard kids have highest LSAT scores because they had among the highest SAT scores, not because Harvard made them so smart. College in the U.S. is still based on the liberal arts model that rich people hundreds of years ago set up to entertain themselves and stimulate their minds for pleasure. 85% of what you learn in school is 100% useless.

[Knock]

The fact that you think that Harvard has a good reputation (and grade inflation is mentioned) academically tells me all you needed to know. I took identical courses in both schools (mine and Harvard's) and I got a better grade at Harvard when all I did was doodle and hit on girls.

And it is funny that you think that faulty logical grounds means "unlike reputation whoring schools"...Al Gore graduated from Harvard and did not get into Vanderbilt's Seminary School...more faulty logic?

Oh, good its one of these trolls.. "My school is harder than Harvard!!".. "Psych major at my school is the hardest thing in the world".. "Al Gore was rejected from Vanderbilt's Seminary School??"(Wait I couldve sworn Gore went to and left Vandy Law)

Any more strawmen? Actually, philosophy and math/physics are the hardest at my school, if you really want to throw around bs at least make it stick

Oh, and a lot of schools are harder than Harvard. If you think anything else, you are simply misinformed or willfully ignorant.

LOL, strawmen?? Anyway, who cares if Harvard is hard or not?? College is simply a screening process for 90% of attendees. The only people it is especially useful for are people who want to go into academia. Harvard kids have highest LSAT scores because they had among the highest SAT scores, not because Harvard made them so smart. College in the U.S. is still based on the liberal arts model that rich people hundreds of years ago set up to entertain themselves and stimulate their minds for pleasure. 85% of what you learn in school is 100% useless.

75% of statistics are made up on the spot.

[prezidentv8]

A tad unfair, no? I mean, our undergrad union actually voted down an A+ addition at our school because we felt it not only cheapened the schools reputation but also its academic rigor...

Isn't it a terrible comparison when a non existent grade at my school boosts people beyond my GPA...

Anyone else think so?

Considering this post is coming from the same person who seriously implied that a psych major with 5 "neurobio" classes was actually very difficult.. I recommend you just not even worry about this.

[Eric475]

I learned more in high school than i learned in college. and i didn't learn that much in high school

[ajmanyjah]

The fact that you think that Harvard has a good reputation (and grade inflation is mentioned) academically tells me all you needed to know. I took identical courses in both schools (mine and Harvard's) and I got a better grade at Harvard when all I did was doodle and hit on girls.

And it is funny that you think that faulty logical grounds means "unlike reputation whoring schools"...Al Gore graduated from Harvard and did not get into Vanderbilt's Seminary School...more faulty logic?

Oh, good its one of these trolls.. "My school is harder than Harvard!!".. "Psych major at my school is the hardest thing in the world".. "Al Gore was rejected from Vanderbilt's Seminary School??"(Wait I couldve sworn Gore went to and left Vandy Law)

Any more strawmen? Actually, philosophy and math/physics are the hardest at my school, if you really want to throw around bs at least make it stick

Oh, and a lot of schools are harder than Harvard. If you think anything else, you are simply misinformed or willfully ignorant.

Curious. Please name names.

MIT, CalTech, Stevens (seriously, noone gives them credit but it's true), Berkeley, Michigan (MINUS ATHLETE MAJORS like general studies or w/e), Cooper Union, Cornell, Rice (curves many many classes and really selective too) in the country (east coast bias, not sure about others)

As for Canada, Toronto, McGill, Ecole Polytech (also the French one)

UK, Imperial, UCL, Cambridge (Oxford really depends on the major)

IIT, India, Beijing University, Tokyo/Fudan

[20121109]

I learned more in high school than i learned in college. and i didn't learn that much in high school

This settles it.

College was four years of drunkenness, BS classes, and unprotected sexing.

[rundoxierun]

LOL, strawmen?? Anyway, who cares if Harvard is hard or not?? College is simply a screening process for 90% of attendees. The only people it is especially useful for are people who want to go into academia. Harvard kids have highest LSAT scores because they had among the highest SAT scores, not because Harvard made them so smart. College in the U.S. is still based on the liberal arts model that rich people hundreds of years ago set up to entertain themselves and stimulate their minds for pleasure. 85% of what you learn in school is 100% useless.

75% of statistics are made up on the spot.

Ok, the vast majority of what you learn in college is useless.. *This comment was written to illustrate how easy it is to change a sentence with a number in it when the original number was obviously meant to have no statistical value at all*

[ajmanyjah]

The fact that you think that Harvard has a good reputation (and grade inflation is mentioned) academically tells me all you needed to know. I took identical courses in both schools (mine and Harvard's) and I got a better grade at Harvard when all I did was doodle and hit on girls.

And it is funny that you think that faulty logical grounds means "unlike reputation whoring schools"...Al Gore graduated from Harvard and did not get into Vanderbilt's Seminary School...more faulty logic?

Oh, good its one of these trolls.. "My school is harder than Harvard!!".. "Psych major at my school is the hardest thing in the world".. "Al Gore was rejected from Vanderbilt's Seminary School??"(Wait I couldve sworn Gore went to and left Vandy Law)

Any more strawmen? Actually, philosophy and math/physics are the hardest at my school, if you really want to throw around bs at least make it stick

Oh, and a lot of schools are harder than Harvard. If you think anything else, you are simply misinformed or willfully ignorant.

LOL, strawmen?? Anyway, who cares if Harvard is hard or not?? College is simply a screening process for 90% of attendees. The only people it is especially useful for are people who want to go into academia. Harvard kids have highest LSAT scores because they had among the highest SAT scores, not because Harvard made them so smart. College in the U.S. is still based on the liberal arts model that rich people hundreds of years ago set up to entertain themselves and stimulate their minds for pleasure. 85% of what you learn in school is 100% useless.

Yes, strawmen. Did I say Psych is the hardest major at my school? My bad on Al Gore, but didn't he bomb a shitload of courses?

I care if Harvard is hard or not, because I appreciate academic rigor (one of my major motivations to get into the law)...oh, and I was inches from academia until a settled on the law

[rundoxierun]

Im just gonna summarize the way this argument is going to go...

1) Some person whines about A+'s as if people are getting into T14 solely on the back of their numerous A+s
2) Multiple people tell this person to shut up because it is stupid to even ask about
3a) Someone points out that the inequity between different majors is likely far more pointed than A+s can even account for
3b) Someone argues that the inequity between different schools is likely far more pointed than A+s can even account for
4) Thread devolves into an argument about difficulty of schools/majors.

[094320]

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[ajmanyjah]

Im just gonna summarize the way this argument is going to go...

1) Some person whines about A+'s as if people are getting into T14 solely on the back of their numerous A+s
2) Multiple people tell this person to shut up because it is stupid to even ask about
3a) Someone points out that the inequity between different majors is likely far more pointed than A+s can even account for
3b) Someone argues that the inequity between different schools is likely far more pointed than A+s can even account for
4) Thread devolves into an argument about difficulty of schools/majors.

Good for you. I suppose everything that has been discussed once should never be discussed again. Like Plessy v Ferguson.

[20121109]

Im just gonna summarize the way this argument is going to go...

1) Some person whines about A+'s as if people are getting into T14 solely on the back of their numerous A+s
2) Multiple people tell this person to shut up because it is stupid to even ask about
3a) Someone points out that the inequity between different majors is likely far more pointed than A+s can even account for
3b) Someone argues that the inequity between different schools is likely far more pointed than A+s can even account for
4) Thread devolves into an argument about difficulty of schools/majors.

Good for you. I suppose everything that has been discussed once should never be discussed again. Like Plessy v Ferguson.

[Eric475]

I learned more in high school than i learned in college. and i didn't learn that much in high school

This settles it.

College was four years of drunkenness, BS classes, and unprotected sexing.

Yes; and somehow we're lucky enough to graduate with "great" GPAs, people think we're smarter when they talk to us, and STD-free

[rundoxierun]

Im just gonna summarize the way this argument is going to go...

1) Some person whines about A+'s as if people are getting into T14 solely on the back of their numerous A+s
2) Multiple people tell this person to shut up because it is stupid to even ask about
3a) Someone points out that the inequity between different majors is likely far more pointed than A+s can even account for
3b) Someone argues that the inequity between different schools is likely far more pointed than A+s can even account for
4) Thread devolves into an argument about difficulty of schools/majors.

Good for you. I suppose everything that has been discussed once should never be discussed again. Like Plessy v Ferguson.

Haha.. OP, you just definitively confirmed my opinion of you.