Does anyone else's school do this??

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The lovely college I attend doesn't give out final grades for the semester until the first week in January. The final exam was yesterday. Completely stinks!

Specializes in ortho, hospice volunteer, psych,.

It's hard for someone who grew up in the electronic age and has always had easy access to computers, cellphones, tablets, etc. to comprehend that there are many people today for whom in home internet service or even owning a cellphone is a financial impossibility. Public libraries and college libraries aren't open 24 hours day nor are computer centers.

Food and childcare expenses must come first. Hence grades are sent both ways.

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Specializes in Med Surg.
The lovely college I attend doesn't give out final grades for the semester until the first week in January. The final exam was yesterday. Completely stinks!

My school got grades out as soon as they possibly could. Made for some tense moments at the end of semester parties with us hovering over our phones.

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Specializes in Public Health.

Pretty sure that was not sarcasm. I've been getting grades by email since sixth grade, fifteen years ago almost. It is strange to have to wait so long to get them. If you are in college, you have computer access. If you are an American, you have access, part of the taxes we pay find the PUBLIC library.

No need for nastiness.

To OP: it's weird. It saves time, money, and trees to send them electronically.

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How weird. I start in Jan. but we still have people in my cohort finishing up some prereqs this fall. They need to submit those grades ASAP so they can start in the spring. This kind of policy would have caused major issues for them.

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Specializes in Neuro Intensive Care.

That's weird. Especially for people that need to enroll in next semester classes.

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Specializes in Pediatrics.

Your school must be headed by an absolute sadist.

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Specializes in Trauma, Orthopedics.

In my AND program, we get 2 weeks in between semesters, and go back January 2nd for spring semester. That'd never fly at my school. Grades are due for transcripts 2 days after finals....But our professors get our grades for our tests to us usual the same day.

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Specializes in Trauma, Orthopedics.

oops....my phone auto corrected ABSN to AND. My bad!

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Specializes in Med/Surg.

At my school, we got our final grade the same day we took our final. Our director don't play when it comes to getting our grades in. We always have our grades by the evening on the same day we took our test. I was grateful. I get tuition reimbursement from my job and they want to see your final grade. It seems like it takes human resources a month to process that paperwork. The sooner you can get it in, the better. I have to put that towards next semester's tuition.

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