> Imagine if you took some 4.0GPA students under the assumption that they actually learned what they claim I'm going to stop you right here, my friend. I don'

> Imagine if you took some 4.0GPA students under the assumption that they actually learned what they claim I'm going to stop you right here, my friend. I don't think I or anyone else is going to take on a wet-behind-the-ears new grad and actually expect any substantial amount of competence or knowledge out of them for a real world endeavor. I pissed away a lot of valuable time and effort getting a 3.8 GPA, and it was no help at all in the real world. Hiring managers didn't even remember what it meant. Once I started my first real tech job after college, it turned out that being the top dumb kid out of a group of dumb kids didn't have any effect on how little I knew about getting things done. I actually learned more and more relevant skills from a couple of years of part time web programming in high school than I did from 4 years in a well-respected university