Mudd GPA

[katmerlin]

Friend of mine emailed me today 'is X a good Mudd GPA' and I seem to remember Mudd Career Services had written a letter putting our GPA's in context (lack of grade inflation and the quality of our student body). Does someone have a link for this?

Comments

[tortoise]

The place where I remember seeing such a thing is on the back of the transcript that came with my diploma (presumably on the back of other transcripts too, but that's the only official one I ever saw...)

[katmerlin]

Thank you. Hmmm...Think my hard copy is at the parents.

[catbird]

This letter is on the back of all the official transcripts. Something to remember is that while a 3.0 (or there abouts) is the average GPA, it is the average GPA FOR MUDD! As a bitter Mudder I can confidently say that my GPA was a full point higher at UMaine then Mudd.

[katmerlin]

Thanks. 'GPA FOR MUDD': Quite. Exactly what I want to somehow communicate.

[quartzpebble]

http://www.hmc.edu/files/registrar/otherforms/JudgingPerformance.pdf

[katmerlin]

Thank you. This is exactly the sort of address I'm looking for, but I'm hoping for one that's more direct. This one loses me in a morasse of empty packaging sentences. I want one that just hits you hard with the straight up facts and arguments. I think there's a very strong argument to be made here, and I think it can be delivered with much more impact. Thank you very much for sending this to me, though, it is the thing I'm looking for, even if it is insufficient for me.

[marvinalone]

Does that ever work? Do employers and graduate schools really look at that and say, "Well, it's only 3.2, but she went to Mudd, so it's all good."? Highschools in Bavaria had a similar problem, but there was no remedy for it.

[katmerlin]

I'm not sure how much that works in general. In this case I think it would because the start of the thread is someone who knows me emailing me to ask about whether that 3.2 GPA is good for Mudd. He knew enough to speculate Mudd's GPA is lower than Harvard's and as he knows me I can presumably try and give a sense of what Mudders are like compared to me. I'm assuming he's trying to evaluate someone for hiring because I can't think why else he'd ask.

I think, similarly, companies that are familiar with Mudders tend to get it. For places not familiar with Mudd I think the arguments help a little bit but mostly we're just screwed and have to prove how awesome we are to surmount that.

[partly_cloudy]

It worked for me because it was mentioned in each of my faculty recommendation letters when I applied to grad school. The head of the graduate department still remembers that.