Monthly Archives: September 2008

Grade Capital

By Ray Watkins | Published: September 19, 2008

Instructor-review Web sites like RateMyProfessors.com are nothing new for today’s tech-savvy students. But even though online rants and raves can suggest which courses to take and which to avoid, they provide users with only a vague idea of how they would fare in a particular course. Until now.

A new site created and maintained by a Yale undergraduate is about to take online course shopping one step further. The site, Gradifi.com, promises to give students a more statistically sound review by actually predicting the grade an individual student would receive in a course, reports the Yale Daily News.

Wired Campus: Yale Student Creates Grade-Predicting Web Site - Chronicle.com, Caitlin Moran.
In theory, grades are like 'money in the bank,' as they...
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The Smoke Faries

By Ray Watkins | Published: September 17, 2008
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