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[quote=Anonymous]Much as SAT scores have all become ridiculously inflated, grades at top schools are now increasingly inflated. My friend's kid is at Duke and I think to make Dean's List which is the top of the class you basically need a 4.0 or very close as so many kids are getting that. And they had to restrict Latin honors to a percentage of the class and the bar keeps going up and up.

I think grades matter quite a bit but as others have noted, it depends on what they want to do. For grad school you need to be near the top of your class, especially if you are applying right out of college. Finance also prefers top of class, though I think some kids can get good internships through connections so that gives them some flexibility.

So I wouldn't come down hard on your kid but I would have a reality check at some point.

Yet another way in which life for kids has gotten worse. I have a top MBA and work on Wall Street and coming out of undergrad there wasn't a ton of emphasis on grades and to get into business school grades mattered but were only one piece of a very big picture. Now it is less like this.

I don't do much hiring anymore but I am less in the weeds on these things - if a kid passed the bar to get into a great school, I assume they are smart and give some flexibility on grades - I am more focused on personality, EQ and work ethic and figure that they will figure it out. From weaker schools I care more about grades.[/quote]

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