Are your grades worth anything?

[hoosier]

Nowadays you younguns are paying top dollar (many many top dollars, many of them borrowed) for your education, but it means less and less.

Today, almost everyone gets good grades, signifying nothing. At Harvard, 49 percent of the grades awarded in recent years have been A or A-. 91 percent of the Harvard grads in June 2001 graduated "with honors."

BUT, most employers don't care about grades. Employers want well-rounded grads who have done more than go to class and study for four years (like be a GLO leader).

You and your parents should understand that for the benefits of college to last a lifetime, students must try new things, challenge themselves, interact with different people, and be excited about learning, even if it will not be on an exam.

Grades are not the reason to be in college.

(Thanks to Richard Labunski at U Ky.)