<p>My top 1% kid made Dean’s List first term freshman year at Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science, but he fell off the wagon after that. I have no idea what his ultimate rank was, but he didn’t get any prizes or honors at graduation. It’s all good though - he has his dream job. </p>
<p>My top 6% kid at Tufts grades are slightly lower than in high school - he was a B+/A- student. Now he’s a B+/B student. His GPA has been hugely impacted by being in a major that requires taking a foreign language to fluency (generally 8 semesters). Arabic is really a struggle for him, and has impacted his grades in other courses too.</p>
<p>For younger son there have been more projects and more group projects than I would have expected as opposed the midterm, paper, exam routine.</p>
<p>For older son computer assignments are a big part of the grade (expected I’d seen that with friends when I was in college), lab grades were not always what he expected and seemed arbitrary to him.</p>