On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 07:34 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> R wrote:
>
>> for us non yale guys, please explain what a "75" means. i assume
>> it's a passing grade, equivalent to a "C." but i don't want to
>> assume when it comes to such a dynamic intellectual president. thanks
>
> Yup, 75 on a scale of 100. Barely a C. His senior year, Yale shifted
> to the grading system they used when I was there in the early 1970s -
> (H)onors, (H)igh (P)ass, (P)ass, (F)ail. HP's were weak B's to strong
> C's. P's were embarrassing. W got quite a few P's.
>
>
this is the grading system still used in the grad school. the joke among div students when i was a grad student was, "this too shall high pass". i imagine the attitude was similar among undergrads . . .
j