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How'dya figure?
Not bad, considering that I have adopted as my new mantra B is for Bubble Tea; that's good enough for me. 6.5? How do they calculate this stuff? And why don't I care?
srah - Monday, 22 December 2003 - 10:18 PM
Tags: bubble tea, grades, school of information
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Mike - December 23, 2003 - 12:41 AM - ℓ
Whoa whoa whoa....wait...6.5? I thought the highest GPA possible was 4.0...? Heh heh, if this is some kinda error that doesn't get fixed you'll have the best Umich transcript ever!
Oh wait...i'm just noticing that 78/12 is 6.5 Perhaps this is something where someone's got the wrong formula in a certain spot...eh, oh well.
Amy - December 23, 2003 - 8:09 AM - ℓ
It's that great grad school thing - I think it's an 8 point scale, but really don't remember. I remember being told before the first exam - "in grad school grades are not a reflection of you, but of the instructor" and then when we all bombed it and they tried to tell is we were dumb someone piped up with "grades are not a reflection of the students but of the instructor." heeheehee
Merrie - December 23, 2003 - 12:12 PM - ℓ
MHP is "Michigan Honor Points."
MHP's figure in for your academic standing. From undergrad guidelines:
"To be in good academic standing, a student must earn at least a 2.0 term grade point average and a 2.0 cumulative grade point average. If a student fails to accomplish this, the "honor point deficit" can be determined by multiplying the Michigan Semester Hours (MSH) elected by 2.0 and subtracting the total number of Michigan Honor Points (MHP) earned. Only honor points earned in courses elected at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Dearborn, or Flint campus) may affect the grade point average."
From http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lsa/detail/0,2034,1913%255Farticle%255F1826,00.html
And
"The Michigan Honor Points (MHP) earned for a course are calculated by multiplying the number of credit hours for which the course was elected by the number of honor points earned on the above grading scale (e.g., if a grade of B+ is earned for a 3 credit hour course, the total number of honor points for the course is 3 (credit hours) x 6 (points for a grade of B+), or 18 honor points). The method of calculating grade point averages (GPA) is given in the "Academic Record Summary Totals" later in this section."
From http://www.rackham.umich.edu/StudentInfo/Publications/GSH/html/registration.html
And Rackham is a *9* point scale. You get a 9 for an A+, 8 for an A, etc. Undergrads get nothing for an A+ (grumble, grumble, grumble, I had a freaking A+ once, grumble, grubmble)
Steven B. Cherry - December 26, 2003 - 1:37 PM - ℓ
My college mantra was "C's get degrees".
It's got to have something to do with those MHP, or something...