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From: Scott Stephens <Scott2@MEDIAONE.NET>

> I'm sure many mediocre "C" doctors and nuclear engineers could breathe a
> sigh of relief when President Bush declared last week at Yale, where he
was
> getting an honorary degree, that even C students can become president.
> Things are changing! And we must get rid of those pesky SAT's that
unfairly
> 'discriminate' against those pedigree'd elite that can't compete with
those
> cheaters that get tutored year after year!

I accept the points in the rest of your message, I feel grades are a good
thing, but they are not the only measure of a person.  It is very
conceivable that grades received is more a measure of an ability to learn
and perform in an academic environment which is primarily lots of tests,
homework, stuffy libraries, writting long essays, petty eccentric professor
demands, etc, which does not always correlate to an ability to perform in
other environments in the future.  Getting a C in a good school is IMO often
better than getting an A in a second rate college too.

Some of the sharpest people I know struggled to get a B and even have a
broader knowledge and understanding of the material than the A students
taking the same classes at the same school.

Jeff

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