<p>Another data point: D had a weighted GPA of 3.8 in high school - but it felt like I pushed, pulled, and nagged her to death to get there.</p>
<p>She will graduate from college with a 3.95 GPA (one B in the past four years) in a pretty rigorous major. Completely self-driven. Somewhere, somehow a switch was flipped and she took off.</p>
<p>Oh, and her classes have run the gamut: some were midterm/final/paper, but most were papers/midterm/final/lots of presentations. Little if any credit for attendance or homework.</p>