Saturday, July 6, 2013

Dartblog: "Salutatorian-Making Professors"


I’m not proud. When I saw that the Class of ‘13’s two Salutatorians had 3.99 GPAs, my curiosity was unceasing. As the wounded perp said to Clint Eastwood’s Harry Callaghan, there are some things “I gots to know.”


Anuj Gupta ‘13 (right) missed valedictory perfection because of his grade in Biology 6 “Dinosaurs,” taught by Biology Professor Kevin Peterson. Anuj said that Peterson was “great prof” and the course was “one of the better classes I took at Dartmouth.” But Professor Peterson’s grading is stringent, even by the standards of the sciences: the last two times that he offered the course, the median was B and B-.


Veronique Lecocq ‘13 (left) received an A- from Philosophy Professor Larry Crocker in her freshman seminar, a philosophy course about “The Existence of God.” Regrettably, the median in that small course was not available on-line.


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The moral of the story is “take professors not courses.” Grubbing for high grades will get you nowhere compared to the life-changing potential of a good course taught by a thoughtful, provocative professor.




Source:


http://www.dartblog.com/data/2013/07/010921.php






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