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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Florida is like California in that it has a very robust and normalized path from 2-year to 4-year schools. [/quote]

Ooof. The idea of community college being the normalized path for someone with a A+ weighted GPA is just unreal.  :shock:

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OP has an A+ weighted GPA because he/she went to high school in a state that weights classes by more than 1.0 and dropped the courses they didn't do well in.   You can't compare a weighted GPA from there to one from a state that uses other standards.  [/quote]

OP here. To be fair, I didn't drop any classes. My school just didn't include non-academic classes in GPA calculations. And since I did graduate from Purdue engineering, it's odd you would even imply I belonged in a community college. The program hasn't changed - it's just more selective now.[/quote]

Look, it's the reality of the world we live in now.  There are 7 billion plus people on the planet and we are competing on a global scale.  Our kids are going to just have to work harder than we did because the competition is stiffer.  But guess what, when I was a student at my Ivy in the late 80s, the alumni who graduated in the 50s were saying the same thing.  It's just the way of the world.  Stop wringing your hands and get in the game.  Or opt out and make sure you leave your kids a good-sized trust fund.  
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