November 22, 2024

5 thoughts on “Should Cornell Kick Grade Inflation to the Curb, Princeton-Style?

  1. You Review writers sure love begging for lower grades. Notoriously grade-inflated schools like Brown aren’t exactly imploding in a heap of inferior education, and Brown recently ranked #1 in the Happiest Students index.

    Brown has a “motto” much like Ezra’s “any person, any study”:

    “The various courses should be so arranged that, insofar as practicable, every student might study what he chose, all that he chose, and nothing but what he chose.”

    They’ve actually fulfilled this with their New Curriculum. Cornell, on the other hand, makes it rabidly difficult for many science-minded individuals to take pleasure in their path of choice. I call for more inflation.

  2. Good points, and I agree with the statement that Cornell “makes it rabidly difficult for many science-minded individuals to take pleasure in their path of choice.” But I disagree with the notion– in so far as it is presented as a self-evident– that Brown is doing the best thing possible for its students by letting them study what they want and nothing but what they want. Yeah happy students are great, but is the ultimate goal of college? Freshmen might not like being forced to take FWSs, engineers might have 1910, and econ majors hate econometrics, but i think all these requirements make the students better off in the long run.

  3. OVER TEN PEOPLE COMITTED SUICIDE AT CORNELL IN THE PAST SCHOOL YEAR. THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO WRITE THIS ARTICLE.

  4. First of all, it wasn’t “OVER TEN PEOPLE.” There were three gorge suicides and three other deaths that were ruled suicide, but not all of these were on campus.

    Second, unless you can prove the connection between deflated grades and depression/suicide, I’m not really sure where you’re going with this comment.

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