I STRONGLY support P/F system for this exact reason. Unfortunately my dental school was graded. And it was chaos bc there was double jeopardy with some remediate courses having a highest potential grade of a ‘C.’ Which is below the 2.5 cumulative needed to graduate. So if you fail the first time and get a D or an E and then pass the remediation with a perfect score you are punished with a second grade failing pulling your gpa further below the graduation cutoff.
That’s how those motherfucking crooks got me. On a gpa technicality. I passed every single graded course but I was below 0.02 below the minimum cumulative so I was mathematically unable to get it higher. Final semester. They stole the $400k from me and gave me the boot.
I said med school for brevity but it was podiatry school. I think it may have been the last one in the country still graded. But it was last minute snd my only option. And it was the same bullshit as dental school all over again with the secret old exams passed around. Which of course I wasn’t privy to.
And yes I love how old board exams are available to study from. I crushed every standardized board exam I took on first try bc of the fairness of them.
I’m glad the allopathic schools aren’t fucked like the dental schools.
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I STRONGLY support P/F system for this exact reason. Unfortunately my dental school was graded. And it was chaos bc there was double jeopardy with some remediate courses having a highest potential grade of a ‘C.’ Which is below the 2.5 cumulative needed to graduate. So if you fail the first time and get a D or an E and then pass the remediation with a perfect score you are punished with a second grade failing pulling your gpa further below the graduation cutoff.
That’s how those motherfucking crooks got me. On a gpa technicality. I passed every single graded course but I was below 0.02 below the minimum cumulative so I was mathematically unable to get it higher. Final semester. They stole the $400k from me and gave me the boot.
I said med school for brevity but it was podiatry school. I think it may have been the last one in the country still graded. But it was last minute snd my only option. And it was the same bullshit as dental school all over again with the secret old exams passed around. Which of course I wasn’t privy to.
And yes I love how old board exams are available to study from. I crushed every standardized board exam I took on first try bc of the fairness of them.
I’m glad the allopathic schools aren’t fucked like the dental schools.