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mr_lebowski

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25. I am not saying that ... the person you responded to said something like that ...

Mon Jan 8, 2018, 03:21 PM

Jan 2018

But never mentioned 'grades', they said "get in, and survive" ... so to me, you gleaned a grade-fixing accusation was being leveled against profs ... when that wasn't actually said.

The profs who hand out grades are not the people at the school who do admissions, or decide to allow people to graduate.

As someone else mentioned above, there are other mechanisms really rich people can avail themselves of that will let them 'graduate' ... w/o professors themselves actually being bribed to give them unfair grades. Administrators always making sure they always get into the class w/the known-easiest teacher of a given subject, for example. They can also 'bend the rules' a bit with regards to graduation requirements, or let them take 'incompletes' in subjects 6 weeks into the courses they're failing when others only get 3 weeks normally, stuff like that.

Nobody is saying rich, but total slacking students ... are gonna graduate Summa Cum Laud or anything like that. Just 'get in, and survive to graduation'.

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