<p>I was one to some extent as I graduated in the bottom half of my HS graduating class and my college academic record is a near-polar opposite of that from my HS. Even received B+/A level grades in subjects I received Cs, Ds, and Fs in during HS. </p>
<p>It is such that all college classmates or post-college friends/colleagues have a hard time believing I was an academic laggard who struggled through HS. Even allowing for the fact I attended an urban public magnet HS.</p>
<p>Some HS classmates who graduated with C/D level GPAs in HS had more impressive undergrad accomplishments as shown by their ability to transfer from local public colleges to schools like Reed, Columbia, etc and then maintaining 3.5+ GPAs as mostly STEM majors with a few pre-meds and Econ majors thrown in.</p>
<p>It’s fascinating how you knew the GPA’s of your high school classmates AND you kept up with their GPA’s once they went off to college. I don’t know any other adults who actually keep track of other people’s GPA’s, other than their own and (perhaps) their children’s. Is it common in your circles for people to mention their GPA’s? I wouldn’t have a clue what any of my friends’ high school or college GPA’s were. If they went to college with me, I assume their high school GPA was very good. Beyond that, I didn’t keep track. Anyone here besides cobrat knowledgeable about the GPA’s of others?</p>
<p>The culture among my circle of HS friends was such that it was no different than topflight athletes showing pride in their team scores or personal hits/homeruns*…especially considering many of us came from K-8 environments/neighbors where academic achievement was denigrated. In some ways, it was our way of rebelling against the anti-intellectual “nerds aren’t cool” BS peddled in large pockets of US pop culture/areas. </p>
<p>Not to mention this information is easily gleaned if one gets a resume from a classmate to proofread for careless mistakes and/or to serve as an example. </p>
<ul>
<li>Taking that from my PAL softball playing days during my elementary school years.</li>
</ul>