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...only substitute for the conventional "signals" graduate schools need to evaluate applicants is a personalized letter for each course, according to Monro. "We just don't have the personnel to write 900 epic poems...
...Monro pointed out that there are already several plans which enable Harvard students to spend much time taking ungraded courses. The difference is that these programs, except for freshman seminars must be in the student's field of concentration...
Tutorial is formally graded but "grading is friendly, to say the least," Monro said. It is usually fairly difficult to get on A, but it is at least as hard to get a D or E, he continued. He emphasized, however, that the University is quite willing to take the risk of a few unmotivated students...
...them on their mettle, but we don't test them once they're in," Monro said. He explained that tutors and Independent Study advisors may grade flexibly, but are not completely free of general College stipulations...
...Monro indicated that greater freedom from grade pressure might enable students to take non-concentrational courses. But "we'll have to see how the faculty reacts to Princeton's plan," he added