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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not supposed to be a culling system.

If you can get an A you should get an A.

Even if you don't like it GPA no matter how hard the school is the greatest predictor of college success.[/quote]

I've also seen studies, and a recent Wall Street Journal article this month, that say the opposite. Also, what constitutes college success? DS is currently in advanced physics and calculus courses at a top 20 university but he will get a B in those courses. His cousins, will both graduate from college with nearly straight A's but they refuse to take any math or science courses because of the tough grading. One is majoring in illustration, the other in education.  I guess, they are "doing better" in college, but are they really?[/quote]

Your a lunatic. Why the F do you know your nephews grades.

Success is getting a degree in something you will enjoy and beingbable to be gainfully employed. A study shows that students in the top 1/3 of an average college do better job wise than kids in the lower 1/3 of an Ivy. .. simply because the Ivy kids can't handle not bring the best. It's pathetic.

Studies also show kids that think a B is bad score drop out of science at an alarming rate and it's not because they can't do it,it's because their ridiculous parents can't handle B's.

It's not a cullingbsystrm. We need an educated country, we should educate everybody we can and who wants an education.[/quote]

It is my DS (son) not nephew. And, I know his grades because he tells me. He just called and said he got a 69 on advanced physics test but he isn't worried because he'll pass the class. We said "ok," carry on. One could argue that he doesn't need to tell me his grades, but we are paying the bills. (I also know a bit about his female cousins' grades because the parents tell us.)  [b]The point being, in college, just like in high school, grades are not the definitive definition of success.[/b][/quote]
Your comments imply that you think that your nieces are not successful or that your son is somehow better than them because he’s majoring in a science and they’re majoring in education/illustration. Why? [/quote]

Calm down.  I'm not this pp but it is well known that many of the math/science classes are "weed out" courses.  I've heard that it is not unusual for a class average on a test to be in the 50ish% range.

Look up GPA averages for college majors and you will see that there are some science/math majors with significantly lower GPAs than other majors.  It doesn't mean that a Physics major isn't as smart or working just as hard as (or even harder than) a creative writing major, though.  They are just very different subjects.

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