THE ISSUE: UNC students and their prospective employers will soon find student transcripts have been beefed up. Two entirely different people argue for and against the new contextual transcripts, which include information like overall grade distribution and section size.
See the other viewpoint here.
You’re kidding yourself if you think you came to UNC to learn. We worked our asses off in high school to get in this place in order to GET A JOB — and to party. UNC’s contextualized transcripts are screwing those of us who have meticulously chosen the classes that everyone knows about — but that I can’t mention in this editorial — to prop up our GPA.
College is hard, and UNC is damn hard. How am I supposed to maintain my middling GPA and have a social life? Some may call it binge drinking, but everyone knows that there’s no such thing as alcoholism before you’re 23. I have the right to go out at least three times a week and keep up my grades.
But really, come on. You mean to tell me these professors and faculty that are instituting contextualized transcripts didn’t benefit from grade inflation during their time in college? Rita Balaban handles herself way too coolly in front of naked students to not have had her fair share of fun. It’s unfair of them to commit their students to a tougher, more transparent transcript if they don’t have to suffer any of the consequences.
Many UNC students rely on the classes which proportionally give out lots of high grades. Carol is cheating us out of better-looking transcripts for the sake of a few nerds and kids who want to be doctors.
