<p>masterofbalances, im totally with you on that. ive thought about it alot–doing the work for just grades so that i can get into college… and ive been motivated for a few hours here and there, but as you can probably guess, my motivation and inspiration never lasts. my gpa could’ve been a 4.4+ weighted, making me rank 1 (and no one else would have been able to pass me cause i have the “hardest courses” and thus, the bigger grade inflation), so the difference of a .6 is significant i guess… ~3.2 unweighted, but MIT keeps the inflation and does “context”</p>