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"E" wrote:

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NOT TRUE, look at all the scholarships good grades can get you! speaking
from experience, I worked very hard in college, I was also working full time
and a mother to 5 and 7 yo kids, with NO help from my then husband. I got
decent grades, but not A's, therefore, scholarships for me were few and far
between, even though I was struggling to do well.
not to mention my present husband, who did hardly any work (as did the prev.
poster's daughter) and yet they get great grades... just doesn't seem fair
to me...
Edith
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College grades are about giving the professors what they ask for.
Whether you have to work hard for them or not is immaterial. Grant
and scholarship money may be dependent on grades, but just grades will
not get you money.

My son is currently trying to get his degree, working full time (more
than a 40 hour week on second shift so he can go to school) and is a
father to two kids - his wife is working so he's responsible for the
kids to a great degree. He's having figure out how to get his own
funding too, and he gets grants etc. and he changed jobs so he could
get reimbursement from his employer too. Lots of people have BTDT.

So I see nothing wrong or unfair about an academic institution
rewarding persons who do well under their guidelines with recognition
for having done well. Why would they do otherwise?

It's neither a popularity contest or a deservability contest. It's
about academic achievement.


grandma Rosalie