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Originally Posted by X5rolls
Everybody gets a gold star - 4 place gets a trophy too....
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From an ol'guy's view, and thinking back on "grades" from the 1960s, I would agree.
I think our HS Valedictorian had a 3.8 or 3.9, class of '65...most of us had Bs & Cs,
with a few A minuses and Ds tossed in.
Now, the typical HS PoohBah has a 4.8 or something, and even they are often on the
wait list for Harvard, et al.
In the U, way back "then", GPAs were chased at the ~3.0 level; now it seems if a kid
doesn't have a 4.00 or better he/she is relegated to the ditch digging seminars and is
held in shame by their peers.
Maybe the "competition" is different today; I suspect I could barely compete...