<p>It seems as if nowadays everybody is either an over or under-achiever going to ivys or communities. Studies have shown the percentages of students with C/75 averages has gone down significantly since our parents were in school. Why is this? I think its because everybody is so obsessed with outperforming eachother to the point where our society not only students get an average of 5 hours of sleep each night. essentially killing themselvs.</p>
<p>In my school C is still the average.</p>
<p>What happened at my school? Grade inflation. The average is still about a C, though, with half the kids pulling A and B averages, and the other half failing.</p>
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<li>The C student is not interested in discussing the relative merits of Colgate vs. Middlebury, let alone Princeton vs. Yale; so is unaware and/or uninterested in this site.</li>
<li>I get the impression that grade inflation has run so rampant that teachers are afraid to give low grades to the point that there's not much distinction between top students and mediocre students.</li>
<li>At my hs, the avg grade was a C and I wonder how much this may have changed. At my school a 3.7 UW GPA would have been in the top 1% of the class and on CC it seems much closer to top 30% of the class now.</li>
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<p>definitely grade inflation</p>
<p>my 4.05W GPA is ranked in the 87.5% percentile (64 people above me o.o)</p>
<p>My school doesnt inflate grades at all and a 3.2 is top half it seems</p>
<p>I guess so. At my hs, 8/280 had a weighted GPA higher than 4.0.</p>
<p>The people ranked around 100/200 in my graduating had around a 2.8. The 'c-student' definitely existed at my high school.</p>
<p>The C student exists. The C student just doesn't have that much anxiety about schools and already has a general idea of the caliber of instituition to which they want to apply. They don't need CC.</p>
<p>While they stil exist, I really do see the OP's point. I HATE grade inflation. Some of the people in our top 20% are SOOOOO STUPID....teachers are afraid to give below a B+.</p>
<p>yeah detroit if i attended your school id have about a 3.6 crazy.</p>
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My school doesnt inflate grades at all and a 3.2 is top half it seems
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2.8 (yeah, I was sick first half and lazy second half of first semester -- B+ in PE :P) and fourth decile -- 63/168 :\ I also think much depends on distribution of grades.
For example, if everyone would be valedictorian and there's one guy with 2.0, wouldn't he be salutatorian?</p>
<p>its called GRADE INFLATION, period. This years valedictorian has an SAT score of 1300/2400</p>
<p>at my school a valedictorian w/ a 1300/2400 is a good yr for us</p>
<p>stupid add/adhd/ld makes testing for most of us so hard!</p>
<p>i never did well on english standardized tests we got from 4th grade thru-8th grade... despite the fact that my grades except for that semester i was sick w/ a brain tumor in 8th grade and it effected my schooling grade wise especially english...i got 90s in english..for most of my life till hs..but my standardized testing stunk so i was always placed in special support classes(and i was so smart..i knew everything!) for english...i never got reading support classes(w/ a reading lever 3 grades highher no!) since i liked writing i did writing i actually got out of it in 8th grade(only one of those tests to test out of) to be placed back in 9th grade but 9th was fun at least</p>
<p>Inflation really isint fair for those of us (me) who are in a H.S. who doesnt inflate grades where in many other schools i would have an 85 average instead of a 76 rofl.... well life isnt fair, suck it up i guess</p>
<p>What's it called when a 4.54 W, 3.9 UW is, like, 30/440, where you drop a million ranks if you get one B, but everyone ahead of you has a 2320 on their SATs? Then what.</p>
<p>Honestly I have a 2250 and was a little embarassed to tell half my friends my score.</p>
<p>That's not grade inflation, that's over-achieving to the maxc0re.</p>
<p>Sometimes I wish I went to a stupid school ;).</p>
<p>Ahh...not another one of these threads!!</p>
<p>Yes, I've said it before and I'll say it again: blame grade inflation. It's really out of control. </p>
<p>And by the way, if you go to a hard school, the "C" student DOES care about where he/she goes to school. Maybe not looking at the top schools, but "B" students are definitely looking in the top 20. Just a thought.</p>
<p>Thats why we have standerdized tests. Everyone is on the same level.</p>
<p>If harvard/yale are 100 notre dame/duke are 90 and michigan/Chicago are 80 im looking at something at 60-75</p>
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<p>I know but stand's are not considered half as much as rank/GPA in most schools</p>
<p>I hate gpa's thanks to going to a school with no grade inflation, my average is at around a high 80 3.0+ but yet I have no clue where to apply to, and it gets even worse since for most merit aid you need a 3.5 gpa........Merit aid is so unfair. Anyways most "c" students in public schools are just happy to have there diplomas or go to Com.college</p>