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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“Once they get to college everybody is the same no matter how "hard" your HS was.“

This has not be my DCs’ experiences.  They went to one of the “hard” HS in the DCUM area and they both found out how well prepared they were for their classes and that not everyone in their classes had the same preparation.  They have had a relatively easier time of it than their classmates coming from less rigourous high schools.  [/quote]
+1 I came to college from a rural high school where we just didn't have the offerings and rigor of schools like a large suburban public HS or private high school and it definitely showed. I felt pretty lost at first and resentful that many of my peers had academic experiences that I did not. (Thanks to some amazing mentors and such I eventually succeeded, but to say there is no difference between students at college once you're there is not true. It's just not.)[/quote]

GPA measure ability to learn, desire to learn, ability to work hard.... So your GPA did exactly what it was supposed to do, predict that you could handle the course work, you had a desire and you were able to work hard. What does "not struggling" in college buy you? Nothing?

Those kids struggled at some point and their parents got them tutors or they were in a classroom with 18 kids. So they learned a skill at 17 test you learned at 19. In the end, you were all the same. ( unless you drppoed out)

BTW, those other student struggled at something, you just don't know what it was.[/quote]

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