You are one hundred percent right, and I’m not impressed with this student’s academic record. Prisoners on chain gangs get a lot done, too.
Here in Los Angeles, foreign-born students (or the children of foreign-born parents) take up a huge proportion of the seats available at the University of California. These grinders are able to shut out American kids because they’ve brought their freakazoid Sunday-to-Sunday study schedules to our country.
GPAs above 4.0 are simply a way to game the system and beat out a kid who went to the prom or pursued cheerleading. You’re not smarter or more deserving — you’re exactly like an Olympic athlete who takes steroids to gain an edge.
My grandparents’, parents’, and my taxes built and pay for these schools — why is there no room at UCLA anymore for kids who played Little League?
Do illegals pay “in-state” tuition in Cali?
I feel that should only be allowed after they have repaid the state for the years of elementary/high school they used.
Part of it is also the characters chasing high GPAs. It’s silly. As a parent, I’d encourage no less than a B (or better) average every semester. For every C grade there must be a comparable A grade to balance it out.
If the kid shows no affinity for math, science, chemistry, etc., then forget the dream of medical school and brace myself for another lawyer (like me).
If the kid pops Cs in English, composition, history, then brace for a doctor.
If the kid excels in languages, look into careers in that area like their mom.
Weaving a basket case over grades is just stupid. Raise a good, morally decent kid with strengths, cultivate the strengths, and get them to responsible, self sustaining adulthood.
Not a bit.
You're like the athlete who works 3x as hard to gain an edge. And quite possibly has more innate talent to begin with.
Grades are, or should be, for learning. Not for cheerleading, or being popular, or leading a protest against Bush, or becoming homecoming queen, or volunteering at a homeless shelter, or playing football.
Those, or some of them, are legitimate pursuits. But they're not what grades are designed to measure.
If you cut through the crap in this article, what it means is that this student essentially completed two years of college while still in high school.
That's an amazing accomplishment! Perhaps we can introduce her to Sheldon Cooper?