Grade Stigma

[I-r0k]

I feel like the expectation for grades keeps getting higher. It used to be that a B was a great grade and an A was amazing. Now an A is good and an A+ is amazing. Everyone frowns upon you for getting a B nowadays. I think this is because it keeps getting harder to get into good colleges so people keep raising the bar. What do you guys think? Or am I just crazy? 

[Guest]

Anyone who cares that much about grades is a bit silly. 

 

Just try your best and don't worry about grades, it's high school anyway, as long as you get into a nice university, who cares?

[DrMacintosh]

Most students are dumb 

 

IMO if you are going to a 4 year college right out of the gate in the U.S. you are shooting yourself in the foot unless you have serious scholarship aid.

 

You could be like me, and have enjoyed life in High School and taken hard classes in areas that you enjoy and still have time to play sports and play games and after High School go to a community college and save all that money and be able to transfer into a 4 year of your choice with a substantially lower GPA than any of the freshman that tried to get in. 

 

But yes, the need for Higher education has kept increasing but cost has increased even more than that, artificially I might add. 

 

Might want to check out a certain politician under the name of Bernie Sanders who has a lot to say on this topic.   

[Guest]

1 minute ago, DrMacintosh said:

Most students are dumb 

 

IMO if you are going to a 4 year college right out of the gate in the U.S. you are shooting yourself in the foot unless you have serious scholarship aid.

 

You could be like me, and have enjoyed life in High School and taken hard classes in areas that you enjoy and still have time to play sports and play games and after High School go to a community college and save all that money and be able to transfer into a 4 year of your choice with a substantially lower GPA than any of the freshman that tried to get in. 

 

But yes, the need for Higher education has kept increasing but cost has increased even more than that, artificially I might add. 

 

Might want to check out a certain politician under the name of Bernie Sanders who has a lot to say on this topic.   

It's pretty ridiculous. My advice if you aren't going into finance is just go to an overseas university. It's like $14,000 USD/year for international students here in NZ, but I hear domestic fees in the US is like $45,000. US universities aren't anything real special when it comes to medicine or the sciences, apart from maybe physics. Certainly I wouldn't pay $30,000 a year for a name when you're learning the same stuff.