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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why can't students study and get evaluated "properly"? Why is it called "grind"? It is called learning and evaluating.

Not everyone deserves a trophy. Studying or get out of the school to do something more meaningful to your life.[/quote]

Deflationary curves and rampant to now professional cheating at the top killing the curve can make it very demoralizing. If schools dealt with that dynamic then it would be different.[/quote]
The issue is academics have different priorities. G[b]rades mean nearly nothing in graduate admissions- you just need to pass around a 3.5-3.7 minimum [/b]and after it’s all about recommendations and your publication/research history. Jobs used to not care about grades but they’ve turned a leaf where they want colleges to do their job in discriminating who is and is not their version of competent. [/quote]

Completely out of date. Ask anyone who is a professor involved in admissions. 
For PhD, anywhere in the Top-30 for that department/field, 3.7 is the general floor to be considered as a US student coming out of undergrad. Internationals do not have the same inflation, lower GPAs are expected and fine.
For Top 10 programs you'd better have a 3.85+, and the research and recs, unless you have one-in -1000 type research or from a very competitive undergrad (ivy, MIT, stanford, CMU), then 3.75-8 could be the floor with the right background. 
Masters programs in stem often take 3.5+ but NOT the top ones or ones that have partial funding--those reject 3.7-8 all the time.  
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