--
Congrats Jamal. You can't read or write, but here's your 4.0 GPA because you can throw a ball through through a metal ring.
And Jimmy, you don those tights really well. Those AP Chemistry students have nothing on you. That extra prancing you did right before curtain call? Valedictorian material for sure.
“Congrats Jamal. You can’t read or write, but here’s your 4.0 GPA because you can throw a ball through through a metal ring.”
That’s not what this is about. This is about kids who DO take AP Chemistry and demonstrate MORE THAN SUFFICIENT smarts, getting 4.0 GPAs. They should have their pick of colleges, but they’re getting beat out by study prisoners from foreign cultures who’ve moved the goalpost to a 10.0. GPA. There is no benefit to America or American kids for adopting this patently absurd new method of measuring college readiness.
If you want to take away your kid’s childhood, have them sit out the prom, never play a sport, and take college classes every summer day when the other kids are inner tubing on the river — knock yourself out. That’s not the way we do it in America. We don’t want our kids to live like that. And the way we used to do it worked great.
And it’s laughable to posit that a mythical 10.0 GPA beats a 4.0 GPA academically. The 4.0 kid is just as qualified as the 10.0 for that seat at UCLA.
I think everyone is misunderstanding my statement.
I have no intention of “giving” an athlete a grade he doesn’t deserve.
I’m saying that there are some outstanding athletes who are also outstanding scholars, with just as outstanding 5.0s in every AP class they take, yet they are not in the top 10% of their class ranking, because their other activities are not ranked as high.
A student who can pull all 5.0s in every AP class AND be an all-star quarterback AND be an all-state musician is a much better overall performer than the kid who sits at home studying all day. Yet the “system” has no way to measure that.
The key point, here, is the student in question has EARNED 5.0s in AP classes and still participated in sports, not given A’s to stay on the team.