* Grades inform potential employers where a student's strengths and weaknesses are.* Citation needed. As somebody who just wasn’t compatible with the school an

* Grades inform potential employers where a student's strengths and weaknesses are.* Citation needed. As somebody who just wasn’t compatible with the school and academic system, eventually dropping out because it took a mental toll on me, doing engineering research in the industry nowadays and considered to be a high performer at work, I’m lucky my employer didn’t care about my grades but looked at my private projects instead.