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Originally Posted by tld221
this doesnt really make sense. countless times isnt it mentioned in NPC rush threads that HS GPAs can be a reflection of how a PNM would do her first year, but then again it be totally misleading? and that HS GPAs are used more often than not in bid selection?
and pray tell, what are these "issues" you speak of?
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I wasn't referring so much to the grades students earn as the level of preparation they might have received. They may be linked, but in some cases even the most motivated students good-grade-making students in high school are held back by the level of classes offered at their schools. When they get to the next level (college), they find out that other high schools taught more and demanded more, and they find themselves behind.
(This can also happen in reverse. We can all think of people who say college was easier than high school, but I think it happens a lot less frequently than kids going off to college lacking some skills.)
There are some people who see fundamental differences in the educational opportunities offered to most white students k-12 and those offered to most minority students, particularly when you contrast majority white schools with majority black or Hispanic schools.
(It's may not be that the educational opportunities within schools are that different by race although you can find studies that suggest they are. It's that a gap can exist in what the schools offer their student to choose from.)
So, if it were true that a difference existed in greek groups' GPAs, it might be tied to the educational opportunities those students had before they arrived in college. And if there are general trends in educational opportunities that are tied to race and membership in certain groups is traditionally linked with race, it would not be entirely surprising to see a relationship of some kind.
Or it might just be that the kids at the OPs campus are slackers.
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