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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I graduated high school in Senegal my final.GPA was 11/20 which is equivalent to a C in the US system. I obtained a HS diploma called Baccalaureate C (math and physics specialization). I got rejected by so many schools. Luckily and miraculously BYU admitted me. I graduated with a 3.9 GPA in Physics.

I don't know how kids in this country have As after As. I struggled so much in HS. My final Baccalaureate exam which I barely passed consisted of a 4 hrs exam in both math and physics, the equivalent of Calc 1 & 2 and Physics 1 & 2. I never had any exams closed to the difficulties of the tests I took in HS.

I wish other countries had a system similar to the US where kids can have As to boost their confidence. Instead most of us end up depressed and think we are incapable. But then I come to this forum and found that a B is bad performance lol.

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It really depends on the high school. There are over 27,000 high schools in the U.S., and they all grade differently and all have different academic standards. Even every teacher within a school is differnt. Some give brownnosing pets an easy A, while others do the opposite. You really can't judge anything from a GPA.[/quote]

PP here. You are absolutely correct. I did have classmates at BYU that were better prepared than me. In Senegal we have common core. In other words every HS Senior takes the same final exams for the baccalaureate exam on the same date. And I should also add that I did go to a Catholic private Senegal which had a good reputation. I just wished they were less stingy on the grading because I believe many of us could have ended up at better colleges. Now BYU may not be MIT to most Americans but for me it was especially coming from a very poor country. So at the end it worked out. [/quote]

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