same guy again wrote:
2.46 GPA?
Dude, that's like running a 5k in 78 minutes!
You actually have to put in some effort to suck that bad. I'm not kidding.
I would tend to agree with you, but I would caution that what a GPA means really depends on the school. If a school grades the way it's supposed to, 2.0 is average. Of course schools are too scared to hurt a students feelings to actually use the grading scale the way it's supposed to be used, but I digress. My point is that a while a 2.46 isn't good by any means, it might not be quite as bad as it looks from our perspective. This is why more prestigious schools focus more on rank than GPA. Because they know that high schools like mine exist where a student can get a 4.0 and not be in the top 10% (you'd have to have at leat a 4.3 to be in the top 10%, whatever the f*** a 4.3 GPA is even supposed to mean).