So here I am, sitting in Panera in Knoxville, frantically checking my transcripts in hopes that a grade or two will close. That’s right, I’ve been finished with classes for two weeks now and I don’t have a single grade.
@lbergus told me via tweet that she now has all of her grades (and she finished finals after I did). This leads me to wonder about how grades work at other schools.
Here’s how it works here at my school: professors are given a deadline, which is occasionally violated. After they hand the grades over to the registrar, they are posted online at the registrar’s discretion.
Effectively, what this means is that grades can close essentially at any time, and one grade may be posted literally a month before your other classes. I would actually prefer that all grades be either (1) held until a specified date when they will all definitely be available, or (2) emailed to me (with the grade in the email) as each grade closes. Why? Because I feel like I reduce my life expectancy a little bit every time I type my password into elion and wait for my grades to load. I physically stop breathing and I’m fairly certain that my heart skips a few beats.
So how do they work at your school? Are things done more or less efficiently?
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My school mails them to us, nothing to ‘post’. We don’t receive them until mid February for the fall semester, and mid July for the spring.
Ours our posted online as well – I have the exact same freaked-out physical response every time I hit the ol’ F5 key. Ours are supposed to be in by a certain date to the registrar as well, which, like at Josh’s school, is sometimes violated. They’re put in a “grades in progress” section as the registrar enters them, where they are technically unofficial for some amount of time. I generally count on Facebook status updates from classmates to learn when particular class grades are up.
Our grades are due one month after the exam. Most professors beat the deadline but some miss it (by weeks even), even if it’s a scantron exam with 12 students. We have to click through maybe five different screens to get to it, but if you refresh within 30 minutes, you can skip that. After a grade is posted, at 3am the next morning an email is automatically sent out letting you know it’s been posted, but does not tell you what the grade is.
It’s been 3 weeks to the day since my first final and I haven’t received a grade yet.
We get grades approximately one month after exams. Professors turn in hand-written grade sheets to the Records Office, which posts .pdf images of these sheets (with secret #s assigned to each student and the corresponding grade) on the website pretty much all at once. The office sends a mass email to students when the grades have been posted, usually resulting in heart-stopping, nausea-inducing delays in retrieving said grades as everyone scrambles to check them all at once. A few days to a week later, the grades show up on the official University website.
Our school has a “gradeboard,” which is a website listing all the courses for the semester. When a prof submits the grades to the registrar (grades are due about a month after classes end), the course turns yellow on the gradeboard while the registrar checks the curve etc. Once the grades are officially submitted, the course turns green. Then students can go check their official record through the main university (not the law school) to find out what the grades are. So I don’t have to login to the central system until my grades are definitely in, which is nice, but otherwise it’s pretty much like your and Laura’s setups.
Last year I refreshed the gradeboard CONSTANTLY, but this year I’m only checking 1-2x a day; I refuse to look at them until they’re all in anyway (in the fall, my highest grades came in first and each grade went down a wee bit, which made each subsequent check that bit more depressing; in the spring, my lowest grades came in first and I freaked out, convinced my GPA had plunged, and spent a week or so panicking about my future until the rest of the grades came in. Turns out, my spring GPA was .01 higher than my fall GPA. :-P So now I’m just putting off finding out as long as possible).
Last year I was spoiled because I had on-the-ball profs who posted early, but so far this year, none of mine are out yet.
Ours are posted online, as they become available. It’s so frustrating for some classes- some classes have only 5 people, with one take-home exam that had to be handed in by December 4th (with no more than 10 pages). How long can it really take to mark 50 pages? Really?
I was a lot more obsessive about it at the end of last year, now I’m just checking every other day or so (mainly to see if I did well enough to apply for clerkships..)
Like Laura, I count on classmates’ Facebook status updates to tell me when grades are posted. I don’t even bother checking on my own any more.
I’m not sure what the exact schedule is for the profs at my school, but grades usually trickle in about a month after exams end.
The online accounts that we check to find our grades are run by the university, not the law school, and the university’s grades are due way before ours, so for now we have “NR” (= no record?) where each grade should be. This results, every semester, in an email from the university saying I (like every other law student) am not making satisfactory progress towards my degree, preceded by an email from the law school telling me to ignore the email the university is about to send. Every. Semester.
Seems like everyone appreciates the online format now. I know I did.
My school posted online, but not until mid-February. That’s right–mid-February.
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Our school chooses to wait until approximately 2.5 weeks after the new semester has begun (or about 6 weeks after finals) to give us our grades. Convenient for them because we will have already paid next semester’s tuition and began our new classes- who knows what happens if you fail and need to re-take or simply drop out. Evidently professors meet and compare the range of scores for each course to be sure that no one is completely off the map, and then once they agree on grades they submit them to the registrar who slowly post them on our school website. We are supposed to get an email alerting us that they are available but by that point I am so obsessed with checking to see if mine were posted early that the email becomes completely unnecessary.
Ours are like Britney’s above. They’re out this Friday, which is cleverly after we’ve paid for the second semester.
I don’t know if anyone has said anything about Cooley but here is how our f*cked up grading system works:
We have 3 terms in a year that are 14 weeks long with 2 week breaks between each term. Week 15 is exam week. If you are on academic probation (AP) or a 2nd term student your loans are not distributed until grades are posted and the registrar can see that you are in good academic standing to release your money. The registrar also posts the grades.
Grades are due monday, week 4 of the succeeding term, the registrar (who is a lazy chimp) has until the end of the week to post them. The AP and 2nd term students even if their grades are released their $$ isn’t released until week 6, which is almost half way through the term since its only a 14 week semester. Did I also mention if you drop below a 1.0 you are kicked out of school?
So in a nutshell if some unfortunate bastard has failed out, he’s in class for a month before this is made apparent, tuition and rent have most likely already been paid, hundreds already spent on books, (which coincidentally are not refundable to the bookstore anymore) & then boom peace out. It’s all a sick cycle to keep Cooley paid.
I have been blessed thus far to stay above the yellow line.
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