<p>So you've spent your whole high school career fighting for straight As, that 4.0 average, straight 5's on AP tests, nonstop studying, but when you get to college, do you think you'll care as much anymore?</p>
<p>Will you care about getting straight As in college or would you be fine with Bs or even Cs? </p>
<p>Would it bother you to just be in the middle of the pack at college?</p>
<p>if you get into a good school with your 4.0 average and straight 5s, you'll realize you might not have a choice: getting straight As at an elite college is 20x more difficult than in high school</p>
<p>I'll strive to get straight As, but that doesn't mean I'll cry if I get a B.</p>
<p>Yea, i agree with peach.</p>
<p>ha, this thread is quite laughable as a premed student.</p>
<p>If i were to be satisfied with B's and C's, i am to have a pretty rude awakening come med. school admission time.</p>
<p>However, i do think alot of people are forced to accept that they might not be at "the top of the pack" as they were in high school.</p>
<p>If you go to an Ivy you'll kill yourself trying to get straight A's.</p>
<p>You'll have to accept the fact that that is basically impossible.</p>
<p>I probably would fight for As more than I'm fighting now. There's Graduate school (MBA - Woo hoo!!!) to look forward too!</p>
<p>Probably even more than I do right now. I want to go to med school, so I need to be making mostly A's (which I'm doing right now, but I'll actually care in college).</p>
<p>There are still grad/professional schools so your college GPA is important. Getting A's in college is harder than getting A's in HS but someones gotta get them, right? My college GPA was only 0.05 lower than my HS GPA.</p>
<p>Well, I think that if you want to go to grad school, you will want the straight A's...the best grades that you can get. Especially if you want to go to a good grad school.</p>
<p>Well don't your college grades only really matter if you go to grad school right out of undergrad?</p>
<p>well they can be important for getting internships and jobs too.</p>
<p>^^^Definitely.</p>
<p>No, your college grades will matter for grad school if you apply when you're 40. </p>
<p>There are actually many who find college easier than high school. If you go to a college without many requirements, you're stuyding what you enjoy. I've also heard kids from very tough HSs say college was easier.</p>
<p>I read somewhere (probably on this board) that a speaker at Stanford pointed the students near the beginning of their college careers that virtually all of them graduated in the top 10% of their class...and that in four years, only 10% of them would.</p>
<p>There are a lot of factors governing both the difficulty of college work (HS preparation, difficulty of college, grade inflation/deflation/curves, interest in classes, required classes, major) and the importance of college GPA (after graduation plans, grad school field, policies of individual employers for jobs/internships).</p>
<p>That being said, I plan to reverse my HS strategy: work harder and more conscientiously, and stress less about the number grade as opposed to the process of learning information, skills and forming bonds with professors and students. Obviously I want to keep my GPA at a decent level, but I'm not going to get crazy about it.</p>
<p>But keep in mind I know I won't be going into law or medicine--those are very competitive fields where GPA is HUGE.</p>