Does anyone else's school do this??

OrganizedChaos, LVN · Dec 20, 2013

Well I guess it depends when the semester officially ends & when grades are due. You don't have much time to wait, good luck!

Mom2ballerinas · Dec 20, 2013

The semester has ended already. The rational is they don't want to ruin anyone's holiday. They know the grades already!

RunBabyRN · Dec 20, 2013

That sucks!

I know official grades don't post until Jan 3 at my school, but our instructors post all of our scores for everything online, so you can do the math yourself and figure it out.

pixiestudent2 · Dec 20, 2013

That's stupid. So students can worry their entire break? Makes no sense to me.

RunnerRN2015, ASN, RN · Dec 20, 2013

Can't you figure out your own grade? My school provides a grading sheet for each course. We plug in our scores for tests, case studies, etc and then calculate everything based on the criteria they provide (i.e. test 1 is 0.25, test 2 is 0.20, case study is 0.05, etc etc). I always know my grade down to the percentage point (even though they only post a letter grade, no +/-).

Everline · Dec 21, 2013

I always know my grade before it is posted because we do computerized tests that give scores and rationales immediately. It's still nice to see them posted, though. Sorry you have to wait.

SopranoKris, MSN, RN, NP · Dec 21, 2013

You should be able to add up your scores and roughly figure out your grade. That stinks you have to wait so long

Mom2ballerinas · Dec 21, 2013

There are four exams and then the final. I have all the grades for the four exams. But not the final. So I did figure out my average but can't do it completely without the final. And they do not factor in papers, concept maps, etc. It is just the four exams and then the final. And it sucks because the final is worth 40% and the other exams are worth 15%.

Stephalump · Dec 21, 2013

Why the heck doesn't your college require grades to be submitted by a certain date? Weird.

sharpeimom · Dec 21, 2013

At the university where my husband teaches, they used to send the grades out scheduled to arrive the day they got home or the next day at the latest. Then... A girl's dad opened her grades before she got home, was furious that she had ONE "B" with the rest "A" grades and he beat her so badly that she missed the next semester. Then... A married student who had a scholarship, got her grades, which her abusive husband opened, and he beat her almost to death because she received a "C" in one course.

It was after those two events, that the school decided to delay mailing the grades out until January and now students have the option of having their grades sent to their school address.

If you're really in that much of a rush to know your grades (if you haven't already calculated them for yourself) how about calling or emailing your professor? Students call my husband every semester to ask, and while he may grumble good naturedly sometimes to me, he gives tem to the students.

Stephalump · Dec 21, 2013

At the university where my husband teaches they used to send the grades out scheduled to arrive the day they got home or the next day at the latest. Then... A girl's dad opened her grades before she got home, was furious that she had ONE "B" with the rest "A" grades and he beat her so badly that she missed the next semester. Then... A married student who had a scholarship, got her grades, which her abusive husband opened, and he beat her almost to death because she received a "C" in one course. It was after those two events, that the school decided to delay mailing the grades out until January and now students have the option of having their grades sent to their school address. If you're really in that much of a rush to know your grades (if you haven't already calculated them for yourself) how about calling or emailing your professor? Students call my husband every semester to ask, and while he may grumble good naturedly sometimes to me, he gives tem to the students.[/quote']
It's 2013. I didn't even know universities still mailed out grades. Ours are entered online and have been since I first went to college 10 years ago!