A new student-created web service promises to help students select courses with a prediction engine to help them determine their most likely grade. If the site is successful it will probably grow to join ratemyprofessor.com as another thorn in the side of college officials. But is an interesting twist on the traditional model of who is in charge on campus. In the old days the administration held most of the cards — but that is no longer the case.
Yale Daily News – Site simulates grades for classes
…a student-run Web site launched this shopping period, Gradifi.com, promises to provide a more statistically sound method of determining the impact certain classes have on grade-point averages, based on students’ previous grades in other classes and the grades received by students of similar academic profiles.
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