Grades in.

[icarus]

Just got my grades.

I completely overloaded myself this semester, but I made it. I think my grades are good enough to get funding for next year. *crosses fingers*

I've moved from an A and A+ average my first two quarters, to an A- this one. Average for the year: 3.86

3.8 -- English Composition
4.0 -- Asian History
3.4* - That horrible Intercultural Communication class
4.0 -- Tutoring

Next year is going to be harder. I have my tougher courses, math in particular.

I've eased in after a 15-year absence from school with my best subjects. I'm not making the mistake of taking such a heavy load again. It cost me. That Intercultural Communication should have been an A, if I'd turned in all the work. And the English Composition grade was hurt by my attendence the last two weeks as I desperately tried to catch up on everything else.

You know. This is still better than I did as a kid. 3.4 was normal for me because of all the work I wouldn't turn in because it wasn't "perfect."

For all that it's been tough this quarter... I love school. :D


*Deserved - I had to choose between not turning in one assignment here or not doing two Asian History assignments. It was no contest.

Comments

[florahart]

Good job. I know you were fretting about perfectionism and grades and so forth. Also, big ol' article in the paper even down here about UW admissions and stuff--ack!

Only UW-associated schools...

I laugh every time I see grades from that neck of the woods. I remember, from when my brother was there, that they actually use a scale up to 4.0, with every 1/10 included. My other brother: WSU. They use (or at least did) A, A-, B+. So do the smaller state schools. Well, Central does, and Eastern I think. I dunno about Evergreen and Western, being right there next to UW. All seven Oregon schools also use letter grades. They just hafta be different, those Washington folks. :D

Course, for you, it would hurt, in this case, if they did, as the 3.4 and the 3.8 would likely translate to B+ and A- and that would be 3.3 and 3.7.

I never took any college math on the way to my lit degree. The irony: the husband actually needed to (and still does; he's never gotten around to finishing his degree mostly due to math requirement!) and just plain doesn't get it at all, and I only didn't because I couldn't be bothered to do a formal placement exam. The online practice one says I'd (still) be fine with whatever the one right before calculus is despite not having actually taken a math class since, uh, 1986, but they require a formal one and pssht, I didn't need it for anything. Heh.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Yes, UW uses letter grades, but UW has a lot of other problems with admissions on top of that.

Basically they've scaled back the number of adults returning to school they'll accept and have cancelled the Direct Transfer agreement. Seattle's economy went into the shitter with the end of the tech boom, and the college was getting flooded with adults. The Evening Degree program has a slightly different agenda, and has the same UW professors.

For me it's not really an issue yet.

I have to pass an equvalency exam, and then I need to do a "quantitative reasoning" class: which can be economics or logic.

I've found that UW doesn't have an expiration date on SAT scores (which is good, since my SATs were fairly decent years ago), but they also want a High School transcript. Studying their requirements, my high school far surpasses what they want for foreign language and a couple other areas, but the Waldorf "broad-based" science approach, where you studied a dozen different fields in 6-week blocks, doesn't meet their requirement. The total number of years of science are way over, but they want 'one year' in 'one field.' So I'm going to need more science than normal for an AA, concentrated in one area. *whew* Glad I found out now.

Hey -- by the way, did you and Marks decide what you want to do in The Dungeons?

Icarus

[ursula]

Try switching from a school which doesn't calculate GPA at all and prides itself on not having grade inflation to the UW grad school, where below 3.0 is a failing grade . . . All sorts of weird paradigm shifts.