Easy A's at UCSC?

Room4Roshi
Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:45:39 +0000

Hi Kender,

I didn’t mean to insult the education at UCSC. I know it is a good school. I got into UCSC as well as other UCs. I am proud of my brother’s academic success. He brags constantly about his grades which just rubs me a little since I’m the one that has had to come home to take care of ill family members and I’ve had to work. He has had the luxury of traveling and partying. I won’t name the various drugs he does, but it’s safe to say he is not sober more than half (if not all) of the nights of the week. I don’t know how much he studies. He mentioned the other day that his dealer has a 4.0 which is what made me wonder about his grade comparisons.

I absolutely know that my personal problems have hurt my performance in school. I don’t just “claim” to love my brother, I love my brother very much. As jdong said, WPC is the business school at ASU. I know that UCSC is ranked slightly above ASU, but WPC has different requirements and is fairly well respected. Also, I was making an inquiry not an assumption. My brother is the one constantly comparing our grades and I simply wondered if he was comparing apples to apples.

In 2010 I suffered the loss of a very serious relationship which has impacted me not only emotionally, but financially as well. I took care of a an ill family member. I was hospitalized for my own medical problems. I have also had to work full time while taking full time upper division courses. I take more than the minimum course load and I’m going for a BS in Econ so it is not as if I’m not taking school seriously. I am just tired of hearing non stop about my brother’s 4.0 when he taking a smaller course load of lower division courses and has nothing else to worry about. I would prefer that we not talk about our grades, but he and my parents bring them up incessantly.