Perhaps you’ve seen this before, and if so, congrats on finding one of the most useful documents in UW-Madison history.
The grade distributions of pretty much any class you’ve ever taken at UW. Just change the years and semester at the end of the address. I asked a few seniors if they had seen this and not a single answered in the affirmative.
Hint hint ASM, why don’t you make this more visible, as opposed to taking ten minutes of searching through UW websites? Send this out in a mass email to campus. Better yet, make it a prominently displayed part of the UW Student Center. Every semester, thousands of students waste several hours plotting their GPA plan of attack, be it through ratemyprofessor.com or pickaprof.com – all trying to gun the system. I don’t blame them; just check out some of the grade distributions in an intro-level course. Comm. Arts 100? You’ll have one class with 0 A’s and another near 40%! Which, in itself, is quite troubling.
You don’t need to pass a non-binding resolution in support of this. You don’t need to botch an election. You don’t even need to blog about it. Just do it. Action. Send the email. It will be the most popular ASM action in the past year. Or, at the least, it will make up for the ugly green bus passes for this semester.
6 Comments
February 4, 2008 at 4:34 am
I stumbled upon this just a few days ago in searching for class rank. It looks like it’s time to talk to the Ac Affairs Committee…
February 4, 2008 at 4:36 am
Yeah, and make class rank more easily accessible. I can figure out rough estimates (LSAC seems to indicate 3.6+ is top 25% of L&S and then 3.8+ is top 10%, with about 3.95+ being the top 1-2%ish) but that’s about it.
February 4, 2008 at 4:53 am
Well appreciated.
February 4, 2008 at 12:10 pm
thanks CB, though it’s of little use to me at this point, it’s still interesting i suppose. can’t believe ASM hasn’t made this more visible…actually, i believe it.
does anyone know how to get offical class ranks? aside from i suppose asking an advisor who takes around 3 to 4 weeks to respond to simple questions.
February 4, 2008 at 3:37 pm
the numbers will reveal some interesting trends of grade inflation in specific academic departments. Some you wouldn’t expect I might add.
February 4, 2008 at 8:25 pm
I saw an abridged version of this Freshman year for just the econ, history, and poli sci departments. Thanks for finding the whole thing!