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the same school will approach the material, and teach it, differently.
“This is not a flaw,” says Barmak .Nassirian of the American Association of College Registrars and Admissions Officers. “This is a feature,” of our educational system in this country, he said. Which is to say, there is no standardized method.
“This is not the French style, we don’t have a minister of education,” he said. In this country, local communities have the right to set policies and standards for their own schools.
The problem isn’t really the scale itself, or even how it translates into the broader grade categorization of A, B, C, D, or F. The issue, rather, is one of academic performance, and there are many factors that admissions officers consider, said Nassirian.
“We know that a 2.5 is much harder to attain at one school than a 4.0 at smother,” he said. And they do
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