You're not wrong. I am being rather blithe. However I'd point out that I'm not saying all masters students have no technical skills but a lot of meaningless acc

You're not wrong. I am being rather blithe. However I'd point out that I'm not saying all masters students have no technical skills but a lot of meaningless accolades. I'm saying that a sigificant number of budding CS majors with no technical skills but a lot of meaningless accolades get masters. There's a difference of A -> B versus B -> A.