2007 recruit: Patrick Kennedy

scannon · November 08, 2006, 05:04:15 PM

Hey, at college in England 75/100 is an A+

KeithK · November 08, 2006, 05:29:18 PM

[quote calgARI '07][quote KeithK]Anyone know what a grade average of 74 means/ Is that 74 out of 100? If so I'd imagine he'd have a hard time getting into Cornell. I'd certainly hope so anyway.[/quote]

I believe things are scaled a bit different in parts of Canada though I could be wrong on that.[/quote]That's what I was wondering. I can't imagine someone from my high school, where a 74 was a solid C, having a chance at getting into Cornell. My point naturally is that I think Cornell ought to maintain high academic standards even for skaters with natural goal scoring ability.

In the interest of flame avoidance I will make no comment as to whether a B average in high school (which is what underskill says 74 equates to) is good enough for Cornell. :-)

billhoward · November 08, 2006, 07:51:57 PM

[quote CowbellGuy]I should have gone to school in Canada. 80 was B-, 90 was A- in my high school.[/quote]

Depends on whether that was before or after applying the exchange rate.

Drew · November 08, 2006, 09:13:14 PM

[quote KeithK][quote calgARI '07][quote KeithK]Anyone know what a grade average of 74 means/ Is that 74 out of 100? If so I'd imagine he'd have a hard time getting into Cornell. I'd certainly hope so anyway.[/quote]

I believe things are scaled a bit different in parts of Canada though I could be wrong on that.[/quote]That's what I was wondering. I can't imagine someone from my high school, where a 74 was a solid C, having a chance at getting into Cornell. My point naturally is that I think Cornell ought to maintain high academic standards even for skaters with natural goal scoring ability.

In the interest of flame avoidance I will make no comment as to whether a B average in high school (which is what underskill says 74 equates to) is good enough for Cornell. :-)[/quote]
Noted, and appreciated. ;-)

Jeff Hopkins '82 · November 09, 2006, 12:23:24 PM

[quote scannon]Hey, at college in England 75/100 is an A+[/quote]

At Cornell, I had plenty of exams where 40/100 was a B-

CM cWo 44 · November 09, 2006, 12:45:33 PM

[quote KeithK]Anyone know what a grade average of 74 means/ Is that 74 out of 100? If so I'd imagine he'd have a hard time getting into Cornell. I'd certainly hope so anyway.[/quote]

Chris Moulson, the School of Hotel Administration. The School of Hotel Administration, Chris Moulson. ::bang::

pfibiger · November 09, 2006, 01:07:44 PM

[quote CM cWo 44][quote KeithK]Anyone know what a grade average of 74 means/ Is that 74 out of 100? If so I'd imagine he'd have a hard time getting into Cornell. I'd certainly hope so anyway.[/quote]

Patrick Kennedy, the School of Hotel Administration. The School of Hotel Administration, Patrick Kennedy. ::bang::[/quote]

I think there's some confusion here. That GPA isn't Patrick Kennedy's, it's from an article written a while ago about Matt Moulson's younger brother.

Al DeFlorio · November 09, 2006, 01:21:08 PM

[quote pfibiger]I think there's some confusion here. That GPA isn't Patrick Kennedy's, it's from an article written a while ago about Matt Moulson's younger brother.[/quote]
Whose sole connection to Cornell at this point in time is that he's Matt's brother.

jkahn · November 09, 2006, 02:22:46 PM

I noticed on Heisenberg's list of unsigned 2007 recruits a
Mike Cornell-LD, Walpole(EJHL).
Last I had heard, Brian Cornell was living in the Boston area, but a quick web search couldn't verify any relationship. If not related to Brian, maybe to Ezra? Anyway, he should consider Cornell so he can have his name on the front of his uniform.

Robb · November 09, 2006, 02:27:06 PM

[quote jkahn]Anyway, he should consider Cornell so he can have his name on the front of his uniform.[/quote]
Yeah - screw you, Herb Brooks! (et. al.) :-D

jtwcornell91 · November 09, 2006, 03:18:23 PM

This is why I preferred not to give students percentage grades. You got however many points you got on a test (say 43/60) and that was converted into a letter grade (say B), or more precisely a number on the grade point scale (say 3.1). The conversion depended on the difficulty of the exam.

Jeff Hopkins '82 · November 09, 2006, 04:44:25 PM

[quote jtwcornell91]This is why I preferred not to give students percentage grades. You got however many points you got on a test (say 43/60) and that was converted into a letter grade (say B), or more precisely a number on the grade point scale (say 3.1). The conversion depended on the difficulty of the exam.[/quote]

It depended on the course. Most of our courses were really handled the way you describe, except for the denominator was 100. The absolute number was irrelevant, the relative number was everything. When the mean was a 40 and the highest score was a 70, you learn rather quickly to ignore the absolute number. It also helps to be an engineer ::innocent::

OTOH, I had one professor ("Uncle Ray" Thorpe) who gave a 10 point "quiz" every other week. There were no prelims. Anyone who had a total point value above a certain threshhold after 7 quizzes got an A and didn't have to (or need to) take the final. Anyone below that threshhold had to take the final. I believe that if you got an A on the final, you got an A in the course, no matter how you did on the quizzes. Uncle Ray's point was that if you demonstrated you knew the material by the end of the course, you deserved an A.