Posted on 05/20/2017 12:38:06 AM PDT by MacMattico
This afternoon I logged on to my daughter's college account and found out grades had come out. I was very excited to see that she had received a 3.75 and was very happy for her. I showed her and the entire family and we went out to celebrate (dinner). I shared my happiness via Facebook. Tonight I went back on to pay a fee that I had noticed earlier was yet unpaid and her grades are completely different! She has one A, a B, two C's and a D! I don't have any clue how this is possible. One of her classes-- which is now a B-- she was given an award for best academic paper and that was her final grade. All other tests in that class were A's. What's going on? I can't contact the school until Monday, do you think it's hacking? I know this probably sounds like a joke but it's not.
Well, at least bill the school for your celebration
dinner!
Ask your daughter now. Call the school on Monday. Would be interested to know what you find out.
Did you save the text of the first 3.75 grade statement?
Could 3.75 perhaps be her cumulative or midterm GPA *before* individual letter grades were posted for the current semester or quarter? For how long has she been a student at the school?
Our girl, in high school, nice girl, had mostly A and B grades, an occasional “C”. Then she turned 16, met an older guy (23), her grades fell off a cliff (averaged between D and F), left one day, eloped to another state and married that older creep. There was nothing we could do. I’ve never seen her again.
Not hacking.
You paid a fee....grades probably didn’t update until that was gone. The grades you saw were either last semester or midterm
No I didn’t. And right now you can’t log into the school’s website at all. The one class she got the award for her paper (which was an A+ I have it right here) the only other grades were 3 non cumulative exams, two she has here which are high A’s one she didn’t get back as the year ended but she said it was very easy and an A. That grade changed from an A to a B. Another class I found where she has 89 accumulated points which translates to an A- on the teacher scale on the syllabus. Earlier the grade said A, daughter thought she got some extra points for no absences and participation. Now it appears as a B-.
I never paid the fee! I was so shocked I screen capped the page and asked my daughter who seems in genuine shock. My husband went back to sleep thinking I’m still joking.
Anything on the net is malleable with one final stroke of a key.
When you checked all her grades were most likely not posted and the 3.75 was average of only 2 or 3,,grades.
In any case, it’s your daughters responsibility to track her grades. Let her become the adult she is becoming.
Anything on the net is malleable with one final stroke of a key.
I wish I would have taken a picture. All the grades were there.
That’s what I’m afraid of.
Oh she’ll be the one to look into her grades. But she shouldn’t have to.
Do the professors post the grades outside their office? I would get a copy of what was posted online and see if the grades match. That would tell me something was wrong if they didn’t match. The best situation is it was a computer glitch which is the reason the school’s web site is down.
She obviously is a good student. Perhaps someone entered the wrong/someone else’s individual letter grades. Good luck.
Here’s the real rub I discovered back in the pre-Internet days: corrected grades due to professor error carry no weight for academic standing/awards within that semester. I had nothing but an A grade on anything in a Marketing class, test or paper. Final grades were posted and I showed a “B”. The professor was an adjunct at the regional university where I took the class but was the department head at a local private university. When I contacted him, he quickly recognized who I was from class interaction and acknowledged his error on the grade. He submitted a grade change form immediately but I still only made the Dean’s List rather than the President’s List for that semester of all “A” grades.
Good luck to your daughter in getting satisfaction and the details on how this occurred.
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