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<p>does anyone else agree with me that that is just correlation?</p>
<p>am i taking crazy pills???</p>
<p>This man I’m dating is highly successful (by American standards) despite not doing so well in college (he was a party boy, now a tame intellectual… not that the two are mutually exclusive).</p>
<p>This is one reason why the ivies, for example, look so carefully at extracurricular accomplishment: that has been shown to be more predictive of success (inclusively) after college – a consideration which is very important to U’s like Harvard.</p>
<p>I would be interested in seeing the study that was done correlating ECs with post-college success.</p>
<p>It makes sense to me, though. I just wish I had read this when my daughter was in middle school!</p>
<p>A student who gets good grades demonstrates some qualities which are very important for success in a career and in one’s personal life. Assuming that the good grades are not just for classes like “Introduction to Potterymaking”, these qualities are:</p>
<p>1) industriousness
2) ability to follow directions
3) ambition to do well based upon whatever the institutional criteria for “doing well” may be
4) holds himself to high standards
5) can maintain some measure of respect for authority and can exercise self-control (eg. can refrain from telling the teacher and eventually the boss he’s an idiot and his assignments are meaningless)
6) ability to sacrifice if necessary to achieve a goal (will study for test instead of watching favorite TV program or going out with friends)
7) unlikley to have a severely debilitating psychological issue which will impede daily functioning in the public arena
8) basic literacy skills
9) likely to possess a greater academic knowledge base than the “C” student</p>