There are private schools including home schools that live outside the GPA requirement. A few colleges remain that do not grade. We like GPAs because they red

There are private schools including home schools that live outside the GPA requirement. A few colleges remain that do not grade. We like GPAs because they reduce evaluation to a summary statistic. But guess what? GPA does not predict a good Googler. Some of the best programmers never had a formal CS education. We fool ourselves and do our children a great disservice by creating artificial ranking mechanisms for the sake of convenience.