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[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]

You cannot do this in college, because at a T50 school (and more so at a T25), 98%+ of the kids are the ones who will be the 4 or 3 ratings.  Few to none of them will be the 2 or 1.   These are go-getters who rise to the top.  So it's not really accurate to make someone "below average" if they are not.  This works in industry because you don't have "only the cream of the crop" at any company.  But in college, if a kid gets a 90% in the class, mastered the material and has the lowest score in the class, they are not "below average" or unsuccessful.

That is also why after 1year+ of work experience, your GPA means nothing.  What matters is what you do on the job and your knowledge base (AWS certifications, etc that matter for your job or the job you want).  
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