Professors have an incentive

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Torpedo your progress to that programs by being such a hard grader.

Some professors can grade hard for different things.

UMPI has the draft system where you submit the draft first so hopefully, the professor would give feedback if there are any major errors so the final submission should be a high grade.

For TESU, some professors would give you a C if you made some APA mistakes, while others would only take a few points off. Yet that same professor that gave C's for APA mistakes was known on RateMyProfessor for giving easy A's for assignments.

In some other schools, you can submit your paper and if you aren't happy with the grade, you can make revisions and submit it again for a higher grade. Professors in this situation were incentivized to give high grades on the first submission to avoid a bunch of resubmissions.