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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let’s try this again: Extremely bright, extremely motivated, extremely achievement-oriented students choose a top school.  
They are given tasks and assignments.  If all of them do what they are asked to do, then all of them get As — as they should.

It really doesn’t make sense to continually post threads questioning why students who were picked because they are excellent students earning top grades continue to be excellent students earning top grades while they are in college. Education doesn’t require artificially creating a zero sum game.  Education requires mastery.

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If everyone is getting a 3.7 GPA or higher, it will make the vetting process by employers much harder.

This is NOT how it works in the real world.  In my software engineering group of twenty, two people will get a rating of 4 (exceptional), three people will get a rating of 3 (outstanding), ten people will get a rating of two (successful), and five people will get  a rating of 1 (below average).  Why can't they do the same in college?  Where I work, they will pick a recent grad with a 2.5 GPA but with AWS certification(s) over a grad with 4.0 GPA but no AWS certification(s).[/quote]

That works for your workplace. My stem workplace will pick a 4.0 gpa from a tough major/school (we check that the coursework was higher level physics and comp sci and math).  And we don't curve for annual performance. Your performance is what it is, and some years its all 3s and we give people big raises because everyone knocked it out and made our company successful. Id rather not hire the 1s in the first place and have to replace and train new people. [/quote]

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