<p>[Students</a> Bet on Their Grades - WSJ.com](<a href=“http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703824304575435494221610702.html]Students”>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703824304575435494221610702.html)</p>
<p>Cant wait for the hustling.</p>
<p>What’s the highest bet you can place? I could make a business out of failing my classes. Haha.</p>
<p>This is such a weird thing! I feel like you could totally work the system…</p>
<p>This doesn’t seem really well thought out… Are they just planning on making money from overconfident students? Will that balance out the overachievers as well as people they end up motivating to do well?</p>
<p>I don’t understand how this is regulated. What stops a 4.0 student betting that they will not get a 3.0? What about a failing student betting that they will fail? There must be some evaluation of your bets before they are placed. They must look at your GPA and course history.</p>
<p>I don’t know if you have read the article, but it clearly says that their algorithm takes into account your GPA as well as the grading history of the course to determine your wager. </p>
<p>Matt125 makes a good point. I wonder if they let you do that…</p>
<p>I am a bit surprised that this hasn’t caught on earlier. My classmates and I were betting on our grades all through high school.</p>