As for the dip in grades, Mr. Breimer did not share Dr. Resnick's concern.
"This," he says, "is what the students told us: 'We need a place we can go where we can just ask questions, where we can make contact with other transfer students.' " Frankie Santos Laanan, an assistant professor who studies transfer trends at Iowa State University, says that switching colleges can leave students surprised, socially and emotionally — and can result in a temporary dip in grades.
Ruby says that she is angry that Bailey-Long put her daughter at risk, but is thankful that the misconduct was discovered quickly and Natalie only suffered a short-term dip in grades while she was not on her medication.
Keep your grades up, your parents might blame MySpace for your dip in grades.
In Figure 3a, totals for groups are highest in 5th grade (163), dip in 7th grade (131) and then are roughly the same in 9 10th and 11 12th grade (145 149).
But a recent report by the dean of Harvard College, Benedict H. Gross, showed that after a tiny dip in average grades -- from 12.67 (on Harvard's 15-point scale) in 1999-2000 to 12.58 in 2001-2002 -- grades inched up again to 12.68 last year.
Andrew Hall, the head of the exam board AQA, put the dip in English grades down to changes in the assessment, which came into effect this summer.
There the story might have progressed along a predictable continuum had Dr. Drager's parents, Marvin and Lenore Drager, not noticed a slight dip in her grades.
"A dip in?" "A dip in form?" "No, no, no.
Hall said the increase in entries to languages prompted a dip in the C grade pass rate that was "much more noticeable than in history and geography", subjects which also saw a surge in entries after they were included in the Ebacc measure.
