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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
Because we have the HOPE grant which gives a full tuition scholarship to any kid who graduates from a Georgia public high school with a B average, as long as the kid maintains the B average in college, at some high schools a B is almost the default grade. However, there's no way that kids at some of those schools are really doing B level college preparatory work. So, from a high school perspective, you just want to respond to the complaining about the lack of preparation with, "yeah, you admitted that kid with the data about how other kids from that high school fared in your program; how can you possibly try to blame the high schools generally for your failure to make tough admissions decisions?"
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I know in Florida, which has had a similar scholarship program for a long time, it's not just "get a 3.0, and you're golden." There's a corresponding SAT/ACT score, and there is a list of schools (based on performance) that are not qualified to take students into the scholarship program.
You know what? No one's ever surprised when a kid can't hack it in college and has to come home--unless there's an unforseen problem like homesickness or an illness. My HS teachers said that they could predict who was going to be home after a year.
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