what do you think about schools with grading systems?

[tova]

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Hi guys,

What do you think about schools with grading systems? One of the schools I am choosing between has Honors, High Pass, Pass, Conditional Pass, and Fail. Also, do you know the extent to which these grades from the first 2 years are considered when applying for residency?

Thanks!!

 

[jlee9531]

relatively important. not as important as your boards but if you do well in your classes you should do well on your boards.

but of course residencies want the people that ranked high in their class. so pretty important.

 

[Jalby]

Not to important. Part of the reason a ton of schools are getting rid of those grades.

 

[tova]

Yes, but do you think it affects the class atmosphere? Thanks.

 

[Jalby]

My opinion is in this thread.

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=97397

 

[Jalby]

Penn switches from P/F to H/P/F and I hate it. I think it's a gigantic negative mark on my school and my sense from the last time we had a class meeting is that it's going to go away sometime in the future.

I will agree that P/F promotes slacking... I mean, if we don't learn some trivial detail that we'll just forget in two weeks, WE'LL JUST BE TERRIBLE DOCTORS! H/P/F has brought out all the closet gunners. The funniest part I think are that the exams just like to trip you up. How do you establish a curve in a class (any med school) of highly motivated geniuses? Well, just quiz them on trivial details and give a bunch of tricky questions that are either designed to throw you or have multiple answers that could be argued for.

I don't believe the honors grade is important at all for our futures either. I don't buy that residency directors are going to care about pre-clinical grades at all. But, why should the people in my class believe me? Hell, why should I believe me? What do I know anyways? So everyone's nervous about it.

Sorry, just a rant. But, this is the nature of the beast.

This is from that thread and says first person what I have said many times.