http://gradeinflation.com/
The biggest rise was in the late 60's, but it was still rising slowly before that. Private and public tracked closely until a rapid split in the 50's. I wonder if that was due to the GI bill, the same phenomenon pushing Bridgepoint today.
Majors differ as well, so your experience at SDSU might not have been representative of the school average. The school average, even if you were in the early 60's, would have been substantially higher percentage of A's then you were thinking
For instance impacted engineering majors at UCSD still grade MUCH harder than most liberal arts departments at UCSD. — January 14, 2011 4:23 p.m.
State Bar's Investigations of Aguirre End with No Charges
Was it Shakespeare who wrote of "Nantucket"?— February 1, 2011 12:24 a.m.
Qualcomm Named One of Fortune's 100 Best Employers
I was offered a job with Qualcomm back in 1997. Back then they had a reputation of hiring talented young engineers, working them like dogs and burning them out within 6 years or so. I turned them down. In retrospect it would have been smart to take the job, because the stock options would have been worth millions in 2000. Back then people were willing to work hard for reasonable pay because of the chance your stock option would take off. I have never understood how a company like Qualcomm can continue on successfully after making the majority of their engineering staff rich. Why would you stay and work as many hours when you have 15 to 20 years salary in the bank? Why would new employees come and work as hard when there is zero chance that the stock can rise that dramatically a second time? Qualcomm Management's approach apparently hasn't changed, because I was told by a senior engineer who just hired on with them (after consulting for several years) that their motto is still: "If you don't come in to work on Saturday, then don't bother to come back on Sunday!" Apparently to solve that problem Qualcomm has turned to foreign workers.— January 24, 2011 8:32 a.m.
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Some propose using class rank rather than GPA. That makes a whole lot of sense, which means it will probably never happen.— January 15, 2011 7:32 a.m.
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http://gradeinflation.com/ The biggest rise was in the late 60's, but it was still rising slowly before that. Private and public tracked closely until a rapid split in the 50's. I wonder if that was due to the GI bill, the same phenomenon pushing Bridgepoint today. Majors differ as well, so your experience at SDSU might not have been representative of the school average. The school average, even if you were in the early 60's, would have been substantially higher percentage of A's then you were thinking For instance impacted engineering majors at UCSD still grade MUCH harder than most liberal arts departments at UCSD.— January 14, 2011 4:23 p.m.
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SP said: "State does usethe +/-... The result would still be the same GPA average, 10% received F's and D's, 60% received C's and the remaining 25%-30% were the A's and B's." ================================== Well, you've gone from 5% A's and 20% B's to 30% A's and B's so you are moving in the right direction. Very simply, if you were at SDSU no earlier than 1970 the likely breakdown was 50% to 60% A's and B's. If you were at SDSU in the 40's, A's and B's may have been down to 40%. To hit last years average GPA at SDSU, they probably gave about 70% A's and B's (30% A's and 40% B's would get them up to 2.9+). I think you remember SDSU grading a lot harder than they ever really did.— January 14, 2011 12:52 p.m.
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If you assume every single grade was a "+" grade (only A, B+, C+ and D), THEN you reach 2.4. If you assume there were also A-, B, B-, C and C- grades, then it drops to about 2.15. The average GPA for universities in the 30's and 40's was about 2.4. It increased through the 50's and increased sharply in the 60's. By the late 60's/early 70's the national average for public schools was close to where it is now, at over 3.0 for public and 3.4 to 3.6 for private. Harvard is one of the very worst. In 1966 22% of Harvard grades were A or A-. In 2008 50% of grades at Harvard were A or A-. In 2008 91% of Harvard graduates graduated with honors (mental note, if I ever meet a Harvard grad who DIDN'T graduate with honors, run!). Princeton is now considered one of the strictest grading private institutions because in 2003 they capped the number of A grades in each class at 35%.— January 14, 2011 9:32 a.m.
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The average undergraduate GPA at SDSU is just over 2.9, or almost a B average. You can't get anywhere close to that neighborhood with your numbers.— January 13, 2011 4:28 p.m.
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I know it happens in specialized jobs with the City of San Diego. There are unpaid interns in San Diego for at least some skilled jobs where there are not many positions and they don't open up frequently. It gives you the very specific experience you need to apply when a job opens up at a similar agency somewhere, and gives you a big leg up if a job opens with the city itself. It seems perfectly reasonable that a lawyer who wanted to be a deputy DA in Marin would intern first to gain specific skills and demonstrate ability to perform and work within that department.— January 13, 2011 7:50 a.m.
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Uh oh. Do NOT tell that to MassExodus!— January 13, 2011 7:43 a.m.
Brown's Redevelopment Proposal, If Passed, Could Whack Corporate Welfare
Why would you not want to interact with the author of a blog entry, to ask questions and get clarifications?— January 12, 2011 3:09 p.m.