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Dynalo posted...

WastelandCowboy posted...

Yeah no. All requiring a 4.0 gpa to graduate would do is make students even more stressed out and delay their graduation, costing them even more money and time.

On top of that... Universities are a business. They need students to sign up to give them money. If things are so difficult that they are out of reach for most people, people would stop going. This would put pressure on the professors to "ease up" on marking and result in many people getting 4.0's that wouldn't have otherwise.

That would in turn make it harder to distinguish the people who would have otherwise gotten a 4.0 from everyone else, making it harder for people to distinguish themselves among their peers.

Indeed. And for a lot of professions, gpa doesnt mean shit. Its just a number. From an employers perspective, as long as the person can do their job, thats all they care about. If they cant do their job, theyll be fired or laid off. If theyre not doing their job correctly and their manager doesnt know andor doesnt care, thats on them. Its not the responsibility of the state or government to determine who can graduate and who cant.