
91% of colleges let students erase low grades
Is that D in Macroeconomics going to hurt your chances of getting into business school? Take the course again to raise your grade and keep that D from being counted in your grade point average. Grade forgiveness — letting students erase low grades by retaking the course — is pushing up grade point averages at U.S. colleges and universities, writes Jeffrey Selingo in The Atlantic. According to a forthcoming survey by the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admiss