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This is a nice example of what's wrong with elitism in higher-education, mis-applying metrics to "rank" students.

• jtbigwoo 13y ago
  Yeah, it's funny. A friend of mine got one B in high school and ended up outside the top 5% of his class (which matters for some scholarships) because there were twelve kids with straight A's. If he had been a year younger he would have been second in his class.
  • commandar 13y ago
    Yeah, my high school stopped publishing class ranks in transcripts as of my graduating class because something like you got down to 50 or 60 out of a class of nearly 300 before you got below a 4.0 GPA and it was hurting kids on college admissions.
    • philwelch 13y ago
      20% of the student body had straight A's? Sounds like grade inflation to me.
      • commandar 13y ago
        Liberal arts magnet school that only took the top students in a metro area of 250k people. You had to test in to be admitted and failing any one class meant you went back to one of the area's non-magnet high schools. So not inflation, just that the student body was limited to kids that were going to make high grades anyway with very heavy AP course loads (which push GPAs over 4.0 since they're weighted).