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Nichols said the change at Hopkins was instituted partly due to concern that the letter-grading system turned off potential students and fostered an unhealthy, competitive climate.
A survey conducted by Hopkins’ admissions office of 129 medical students who had been accepted there but decided to go elsewhere showed that of the 62 who responded, a majority said Hopkins’ old grading system convinced them not to enroll.
Vanessa G. Henke ’02, a first-year at HMS, said that after working hard to get into medical school, a letter-grading system only fueled excessive student competition and Hopkins had perhaps taken a step in the right direction.
“If Hopkins had changed the grading system when I was applying, maybe I could have considered it,” Henke said.
Raj Malhotra ’00 who had been admitted to Hopkins Medical School but enrolled at HMS said even though he chose HMS mainly due to the school’s programs, the grading system at Hopkins gave him the final conviction to enroll at HMS.