Is it true that at Harvard, you get to keep only the grades you want?

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: AgentEL

Originally posted by: pillage2001

Originally posted by: GiLtY

Originally posted by: CoolTech
Is it true that at Harvard, you get to keep only the grades you want on your transcript? I heard this, wondering if its true. If it is, seems unfair to all the other school that do not have this policy and inflates the public's perspective of Harvard.

Don't know about Harvard, but I do know that Stanford allows you to drop the class at the last minute, and by last minute I mean before the final exam.

--GiLtY

Without any academic penalty or it being showed up in your transcript???? That's messed up man.

I heard about this too. I doubt anyone would actually do it unless they know they were failing. Otherwise, it'd be a huge waste of time and money considering how much tuition costs.

Cost doesn't matter if you're rich, does it?

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

My father went to Harvard and they did not have any such program in place (though admittedly that was some time ago).

 

[sygyzy]

I've read the same thing as others here. That basically at the top schools, the admissions is the hardest part. Once you get in, it's almost impossible to fail out. Imagine if you had a bunch of people failing Harvard? How would that look at that school?

There is a very legitimate / scientific paper written on this very subject. It includes UC's as well.

 

[kami333]

Originally posted by: Broncho
I went to UT Dallas and they would allow you to retake a class later and have the higher of the two grades be the only one that counted in your GPA so that I think is a fairly standard deal since it is a public university. The one catch is both classes remain on your transcript so anyone who looks at it can tell you took the class multiple times. Last day to drop a class was like a month or a month and half before the semester was over.

I guess I'm a little naive but I assumed that was the way most schools did it.

Same at my place, GPA gets a boost but you retain both on your transcript.

 

[SP33Demon]

At West Va U, I believe you could take the better of the two times you took the class only for your frosh and soph years... after that, u can't change what you got.