Leaked: Harvard’s Grading Rubric(nytimes.com)
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Leaked: Harvard’s Grading Rubric
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/opinion/sunday/leaked-harvards-grading-rubric.html?_r=0
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One of the things that bothers me about online newspapers as a medium is that you don't get the same cues that this is in the "Opinion" section of the paper that you'd get from a dead-tree newspaper.
It would have been more apparent that this was satirical for someone scanning if it had been surrounded by other Opinion articles on a page, and/or had a large political cartoon nearby. But these don't translate well to a deep link on a newspaper's website.
After reading this and the linked Boston Globe article, I had to come back to this page and look for "Opinion" (and found it in the URL before I found it on the web page itself).
It would have been more apparent that this was satirical for someone scanning if it had been surrounded by other Opinion articles on a page, and/or had a large political cartoon nearby. But these don't translate well to a deep link on a newspaper's website.
After reading this and the linked Boston Globe article, I had to come back to this page and look for "Opinion" (and found it in the URL before I found it on the web page itself).
I find it hard to believe that a piece mentioning what grades to award "work submitted by farm animals" is difficult to recognize as satire without a political cartoon nearby...
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But until then, I think there's a general feeling that the admissions process accepts those who basically only do "A" work, and subsequent grading within the school follows as such. Brown does P/F and Yale Law School omits grading too.