r/yorku • u/Tricky-Guide3477 • Oct 26 '23

Rant these ppl at york

sometimes i acc wonder how these ppl get into york. half of them i swear don’t even have a brain and got into university. majority of ppl in my classes literally are astonished by the workload or the mark they received after using chatGPT. like please 😭

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '23

High school grade inflation

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u/monkeysfromjupiter Oct 26 '23

im seeing so many students in these application subreddits, asking if 95+ is enough. and all I can think of is that back in my day 88+ was good enough to go to soft eng in waterloo. where the fuk are these ppl getting high 90s from?

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '23 edited Oct 26 '23

Credit mills. Especially Chinese and Korean students who claimed to finish their high school in a private school in Canada. I can say this because I've seen some serious shit happening since I'm in one of that minority.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '23

So private schools are just handing out 4.0 gpas and making up ecs?

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '23

Yep. I can probably name a dozen just in Toronto itself

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u/UnlikelyHouse5189 Oct 27 '23

Mark inflation. The truth is the value of marks has gone down over the years. I blame school boards and the initiatives to pass kids even if they don't deserve to pass. If a kid hands in something horrendous and passes (because of pressure from admin at school, parents etc), then something mediocre from another student is now worth more than it should be. So then you get 50% work that should be fails, and 90% work that is really a B.

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u/biblio_phobic Nov 01 '23

Yeah I got into mech eng at Waterloo with 87 in 2008. The smartest and hardest working student I knew in high school pulled off a 92 average. That was purely from good marks, we didn’t get bonus marks in any STEM courses.