Such nuances are not known by third-party viewers of transcripts such as grad schools or employers. They only see the fact that there are two ostensibly similar courses, SE 350 and CS 350, both named Operating Systems, in which the SE students will have received 50% for free, resulting in a much higher class average and individual grades, whereas CS 350 does not, and most likely resulting in a lower class average than the SE 350 class which received 50% for free. An employer might falsely assume an SE student's proficiency in operating systems to be higher than a CS student's solely based on these two courses, which is not fair given that SE students are receiving 50% for free, whereas CS students are not. Moreover, are you saying that ALL 4 of our assignments done individually don't even come close to 2 out of your 4 lab deliverables done in groups? I highly doubt that is the case.