It’s official … I passed everything!

by Hella ~ May 9th, 2006

Though I had some scary classes this semester (in terms of crazy difficult material), I actually did OK. My Wharton academic career is complete! I have attained the 19 credit units (I actually completed 19.5) required to graduate while also completing majors in Accounting, Finance, Marketing, and Strategic Management.

The Wharton grading system
At Wharton, at least until the Class of 2008 gets here, we have DS (distinguished), HP (high pass), P (pass), QC (qualifying credit), and NC, which carry grade point values of 4, 3, 2, 2, and 0, respectively. A QC is the same as a P, except if you get too many, you go on academic probation. The same thing happens with NCs but it takes much fewer of them. Most students in a course receive a P with about 10-15% getting a DS (some professors give significantly more) and 10% (forced curve for the most part) receving a QC.

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4 Responses to It’s official … I passed everything!

  1. Moe
    May 9th, 2006 at 9:16 am

    Awesome and Congrats!

  2. Chris
    May 9th, 2006 at 9:25 am

    Congrats!!!

    What’s with the confusing and ambiguous grading system? Is the 4.0 grading scale not enough?

  3. Emmanuel
    May 22nd, 2006 at 9:09 am

    Hey,
    Just wants to congratulate you. I may not be able to understand all that you went throught not since I am just going to Darden Business School in August. Anyway, I wish you all the best

  4. Matt
    August 10th, 2006 at 3:56 pm

    Yes the Wharton grading scale is a bit messy. I was in the certificate WPWP Finance and Accounting program and had one class where top student grades were penalized several percent, and poor performers’ grades boosted by as much as 20%! The effect was an extremely narrow A grade range and a wide B range. One accounting class had 3/5 class with a C or fail, with 1/5 As and 1/5 Bs - no curves applied. So there is so much variation that you really have no idea what you need to score to get an A in a class - it depends on your professor and your classmates. If you are unlucky and have a few brilliant students, you have to step it up considerably - but after the midterm, there isn’t much you can do. Wharton definitely should adopt a standard grading scale.