Isn't GPA overrated?

asianese
Fri, 06 Aug 2010 21:48:52 +0000

TevashSzat, are you saying that no matter what, if you have less great grades, you are not smart? In your post, you said that you slacked off to a degree, yet still manage to maintain perfect grades. HOWEVER, I am sure there are many smarter people who slack off much more than you and maintain a less than perfect GPA. According to you, this statement is “BS”. I’m not saying that I’m more intelligent than you in any way, but throughout 9th grade, I was able to maintain less than perfect grades in all my classes except for PE(straight Cs) with no notes at all and maybe about 20% of homework completed. While the rest of my class was filling up 3-4 tablets of notes, I was playing Pokemon in the back of my class. However, when testing time came, I managed to consistently score perfects or near-perfects on all of my tests, while those who took notes were envious and upset. In the end, I ended up getting many Bs because of my lack of completed homework and classwork, even though my exams were by far the highest in my class. My point is that there are extremely smart, but lazy peple out there, and from my own personal experience, work ethics always trump intelligence.