PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE PAGE: Your grades have now been computed and submitted to the Registrar's Office. Consequently, you should be able to see your final course grade via the StudentLink shortly.

Your course grade has been computed according to the grading scheme that was stated on the syllabus at the beginning of the semester. Please note that the scheme already makes an allowance for one bad exam. No factors other than your performance on the exams and your homework grade go into the determination of your course grade.

If you would like to go over your final with me, I would be happy to do that during my office hours next semester. If you cannot make my office hours, we can arrange another time via email.

I try to be especially careful when I compute your grade. The computations are checked and double checked (really!). Given the size of this class and how well I know all of you, I am confident that your grade is consistent with your performance this semester. However, if you think that I have made a mistake in the computation, then you can check with me after January 1. If you do have a question about your grade, hold off on the email until January. I am certain that email about grades that arrives before then will get lost in the piles of spam that I get over the holidays. If you do decide to contact me in January from an email address that is not your BU address, remember to include your BU ID number so that I can be sure that the email is really from you. Please don't send email that essentially amounts to begging for a slightly higher grade.

If you would like to see the grade that you got on the final along with your other grades in the course, you can go to the site for our course on blackboard.bu.edu.

Here are the curves that were used when your course grade was computed.

Have a nice holiday break.

Paul Blanchard