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Originally Posted by couggirl
Just because someone has a low GPA or SAT scores does not mean that they are lazy or pissed away their high school days. I know this is off topic, but this kind of offends me. I worked really hard in High school and had a okay GPA (3.3 due to lots of Art classes which =graranteeded A at my school) and Low SAT scores, but the does not mean that i did not work hard. I had a problem and the doctors could not figure out what was wrong with me. In college my grades were some times good, but sometimes bad. I could not figure out why. My GPA was barley a 2.3 for most of my college education. It was not until after I graduated from college that someone figured out that I have a pre-diabetic condition. Now that I am being treated for that this condition School is soo much easier and what use to take me hours to do I can do in about 30 minutes.
So please don't assume that just because someones grades are lower that they are lazy. Obviously their are exceptions, but there are actually reasons that some people have a hard time in school and therefor low GPA.
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A 3.3 is not a "bad" GPA and you would have been able to go through recruitment, although if your application looked anything like this post I think you would have been cut anyway. Or cute. Hard to tell.
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Originally Posted by breathesgelatin
I feel what you're saying to a large degree, but I believe there are some cases in the working world where people receive accommodations.
Now, I'm thinking about this based on my experience as a college instructor and the different kinds of accommodations I had to grant (well, actually, I didn't grant them per se- the appropriate UT office did and just told me what I needed to do and often administered the accommodations itself).
For example, probably the most common situation I got was a student who needed additional time for taking a test. Now, how many times in the working world, REALLY, do you take a 1-hour timed test? I don't think a project with a deadline is comparable to this at all. Furthermore some students got to take their test in a special quiet room because frankly, when you have 80-300 people in a classroom taking a test, people are going to finish early, rustle around, scrape chairs, that kind of thing. Again, not a huge problem in the working world.
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I agree with this completely - the classes I RAed for had a lot of people who needed a "quiet" test room and I think that's a perfectly reasonable accommodation. At your workplace the odds are you aren't going to be in a time sensitive situation with the person next to you shuffling papers and chomping cud and no way to get away from them.