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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First, it's hard to get bad grades at an elite school due to grade inflation.

Second, if you have an HYPS degree, no one cares about your grades. I've literally never put my GPA on a resume. I wasn't advised to do so by our career office, and I find it very odd when people do it.

Basically, unless you include it on your resume, no one hiring you knows where you ranked in your class. And at least at my undergrad, the only signifier of rank was whether you were Phi Beta Kappa or not.[/quote]

All of this may be true but ...

Ivy schools found a severe case of relative deprivation which in layman's terms means kid who are use to being the smartest struggle when they are not.  It all comes down to how the kids see themselves in relation to their peers. They don't get the good jobs or the good internship, etc because they get the ridiculous impression they are not as smart as they thought.

What they also found is that students who have "something else" to hold themselves in high esteem besides their grades do not suffer from relative deprivation even if they are in the bottom 10%, which brings us to holistic admissions. This is why they want the top violinist, athlete, artist.... because they may be in the bottom of the class academically (bottom of the top 1%) and they don't care because they are by far the best in their area of interest.

Sure internships might want to know the GPA but  nobody gets less than a B and country club athletes get internships through their coach. [/quote]

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