>Only kids from the top half of the high school class should be going for 4-year degrees.
By GPA, I was in the bottom 5% of my high school class. My feelings at the time were that a D meant you didn’t have to take the class again. My test scores were high enough to get a number of colleges to accept me.
Occasionally there will be a “late bloomer” who wakes up after sleeping through high school.
There is also the high school star who flames out in college.
But that’s not the odds.