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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

But what if a particular cohort of employees is truly exceptional? What if more than two people deserve a 4? What if no one deserves a 4 that year? What if you’ve managed to put together an amazing team, as every employer hopes to do, and you genuinely want to keep them all. You’ll still give five 1s? How would that be in the company’s interest? [/quote]

It's the Jack Welch school of management. It works great if the goal is getting rid of dead weight. The downside is that it breeds a culture of fear and you end up losing the people that you wanted to retain. [/quote]

It’s the Squid Game school of management. An extremely weird example to use when describing the “real world,” bc the rules are both arbitrary and human-designed, no less so than a hypothetical college with a documented policy that assigns everyone an A. [/quote]

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