Weight of clerkship grades

ACDF wrote: Grades are brought up sometimes.

At brown for example, the chair goes over your transcript in front of you and assigns "points" to you depending on which courses you received honors, your step scores, AOA, whether you were a college athlete, etc...

Lol that is absolutely absurd

blaqmamba wrote:

ACDF wrote: Grades are brought up sometimes.

At brown for example, the chair goes over your transcript in front of you and assigns "points" to you depending on which courses you received honors, your step scores, AOA, whether you were a college athlete, etc...

Lol that is absolutely absurd

Haha isn't it? That type of pettiness is prob the most efficient way to get your program ranked low on my list. (Not that I'm butthurt, my app fared well in this stupid exercise .)

ACDF wrote:

blaqmamba wrote:

ACDF wrote: Grades are brought up sometimes.

At brown for example, the chair goes over your transcript in front of you and assigns "points" to you depending on which courses you received honors, your step scores, AOA, whether you were a college athlete, etc...

Lol that is absolutely absurd

Haha isn't it? That type of pettiness is prob the most efficient way to get your program ranked low on my list. (Not that I'm butthurt, my app fared well in this stupid exercise .)

Makes for a useless interview. I would hope they would save applicants the time and money!

This is probably now a thing of the past since Ehrlich will be leaving, the new chair will likely not be as numerically obsessed.

Teggie wrote: This is probably now a thing of the past since Ehrlich will be leaving, the new chair will likely not be as numerically obsessed.

Hm, maybe so. Who is the new chair? While he was the most up front with his love of numbers and athlete status, there were other interviewers counting gold stars when I interviewed there...

I think Eberson is the acting chair until a new one is appointed. Top candidates are probably Akelman or Weiss.