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as for real research concerning grades, who said i didn't have the data?still_confused said:so now canadiens > american opt students ?
maybe its time to do some real research concerning grades, trends, and even socio economic effects, and not base it on what you observed or what a professor showed you. in the statistic world, that kind of "evidence" means nothing and in any academic arena will be laughed out of the room.
oh and you worked hard during school and had a part-time job? welcome to life. i know at least one graduate of UW (my co worker) that was worth her marks, and is nothing short of brilliant and get this, she also had a part time job!
tybuff said:your argument for B average is baseless; My quantum mechanics class had a B+ average, did that mean it was easy? I guess so. but then again, there was only 6 of us, so only half a dozen found it easy.
profs determine averages, that's all there is to it.
14_of_spades said:Ur way late in the discussion. people only replied to snippets out of a big volume of posts. anyways...
i'm defining a pre-med undergrad as the undergrads where the institution has a medical school.
u did quantum mechanics - u should be smart enough to understand this:
2nd year biology
class of 6 students - average B. THIS IS OK
2nd year biology
class of 200 students - average B. This is generally NOT OK.
14_of_spades said:i'm not asking anyone to agree with me. obviously it was a mistake to bring the issue up. if i offended anyone, i apologize. i did not, however, "make anything up".
further, i'm entitled to my opinions as u are yours. if u don't like my opinions, then really, discuss the opinions. why is it always that people respond in sheep-herd mentality when someone brings up a radical idea? obviously - attack the INDIVIDUAL, not the IDEA. i saw a trend that may have existed so obviously there's something wrong with ME.
i'd like to thank looman for discussing the concept, and at the least, conceding it's conceivability.
a very ambitious president from a prestigious university just resigned for stating his opinion on why females are less represented in the maths and sciences. despite the fact that the unequal representation can be shown by statistics, the fact that he mentioned a "plausible", perhaps "obvious" (i.e men and women are different) explanation did him in. but hey, who cares if he's right, he obviously has a bias against woman - the guy is a nut.
yes. and the world is flat. just ask Galileo - like he said in front of the Spanish Inquisition.
[edit: the S.I. was about the motion of the earth and the sun. i won't go into why i bring this up]
loo_grad said:14 of spades & Tybuff..
I remember a student who would walk around UW Opt and gripe about this kind of stuff. I went to UW and did my undergrad/opt program there. I got 95% in Calculus. Was my mark over-inflated cause you didn't achieve the same thing at UT? I also tutored students whose major was math & engineering in calculus and algebra. I also recieved 96% in Organic... again this is obviously high cause Tybuff recieved a 87% at UT with a class of 300 students. I also recieved 14/15 on the MCAT in the physical sciences so maybe I was capable of understanding and applying something related to science. I received a score of 380 in the orgo section on the OAT - not bad considering i hadn't finished my first term in it and I was ill with the flu & had high fever at the time. Maybe UW has some graduates deserving of the marks that reflect their efforts and some of these students would be able to compete at other schools? I guess standardized testing would be the only way to appropriately guage the abilities of students across school rather than a BIASED analysis of CAREFULLY collected class averages that you would call your DATA. I really disagree with the lack of an evidenced based approach.
loo_grad said:14 of spades & Tybuff..
I remember a student who would walk around UW Opt and gripe about this kind of stuff. I went to UW and did my undergrad/opt program there. I got 95% in Calculus. Was my mark over-inflated cause you didn't achieve the same thing at UT? I also tutored students whose major was math & engineering in calculus and algebra. I also recieved 96% in Organic... again this is obviously high cause Tybuff recieved a 87% at UT with a class of 300 students. I also recieved 14/15 on the MCAT in the physical sciences so maybe I was capable of understanding and applying something related to science.
loo_grad said:I received a score of 380 in the orgo section on the OAT....I guess standardized testing would be the only way to appropriately guage the abilities of students...
14_of_spades said:Ur way late in the discussion. people only replied to snippets out of a big volume of posts. anyways...
14_of_spades said:i'm defining a pre-med undergrad as the undergrads where the institution has a medical school.
14_of_spades said:u did quantum mechanics - u should be smart enough to understand this:
2nd year biology
class of 6 students - average B. THIS IS OK
2nd year biology
class of 200 students - average B. This is generally NOT OK.
powerpuff said:Hi just wondering if any EXTERNAL applicants have been invited for an interview yet??
powerpuff said:Ooh congrats!
two questions for ya:
1. does waterloo give off campus interviews?
2. do they choose the date for you or you choose yourself? and do they give you a big range to choose from?