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<p>I suppose, but nobody gets below a 3.0, do they? Geez. I had a 1.9 GPA in HS, bottom fifth of my HS class, embarrassingly poor SAT scores. I went to the only college that would accept me (I won’t name it to avoid unfairly stigmatizing the school), earned straight A’s (yes, the competition level had something to do with it), but used that as leverage to transfer to a respected private university in New York, a school I never could’ve gotten into straight from HS. From there, I went on to graduate magna cum laude. I had no trouble competing against the same kids who were Top 10% in HS with awe-inspiring SAT scores. My embarrassing HS performance did not doom me to finish at the bottom 50% of my college class, a class filled with people who did significantly better in HS. That is what I object to–believing a student’s modest or below HS stats predict where he/she would finish vis a vis the glitterati at some elite college or university. I’m a living example of the flaws in that kind of thinking.</p>