<p>I don’t think you have to bundle grades based on what I just said, and I also don’t think it’s an institutions job to make adcoms or businesses jobs any easier. The only reason high school GPA can even be looked at is because colleges have significant data on the structures at almost all schools and do a lot of work specializing and learning these systems so as to be able to make these grades mean something. Honestly, that’s not making anyone’s job any easier than the system I proposed.</p>
<p>I think that business would just be fine recruiting people the old fashion way-- interview them, use internships for screening, etc. Most areas do this anyway. If people are unsuccessful, you fire them, the same as anyone else who’s not cut out for work despite the fact that some metric, GPA, which in no way reflects how well you’ll be at doing something in industry, was used to screen you before.</p>
<p>Google doesn’t use GPA-- they give exams and have an extensive hiring process that can last six months or more. They seem to think that just knowing you did well in class is not enough to build successful employees.</p>
<p>My point is, you’re glorifying the usefulness of a GPA way, way beyond it’s actual usefulness. Not only is it not uniform (and never will or could be), it’s not even that powerful a predictor of, frankly, anything. GPA is already a dicey, mixed bag metric. So why pretend that it’s any more useful than it is?</p>
<p>In fact, it would be far more meaningful if my system was used and grading rubrics/expectations were clearly outlined for each course. Average score for the class isn’t helpful-- everyone may have done well. Curves aren’t helpful-- if this particular year students were not as good as years past the threshold for an A changes significantly to the detriment of those taking the class and those evaluating. Standards for each year are meaningful and transparent and describe precisely what is expecting to earn a certain grade.</p>
<p>Grades are nonsense almost always and do not provide any of the information most people typically assume they do.</p>