Scholars and grades
Someone was telling me this week that grades aren’t everything in school/college.
Well, not quite what you think it is. He was actually trying to make the point that taking lots of challenging classes and scraping a 3.5 GPA is worth much more intellectually, and significantly better for your development, than taking all the easy classes and easily clearing a 4.0.
It occurs to me now that scholarships might make this difficult. After all, when you have a contractual obligation to maintain a term GPA of, say, 3.4, there’s no real incentive for you to overload your schedule or to take especially difficult classes, is there, even if you’ll benefit more from doing that? After all, losing a scholarship and x% on top to boot is rather painful.
What a conundrum.
