Quote Originally Posted by Medi View Post
For real? You have to work like hell to get a 4.0 at my school... unless you take all phys ed and art classes, but most universities I've checked prefer those with rigorous courses anyway.
Quote Originally Posted by Demon Dude View Post
I'm not even American and I disagree.
In the netherlands it isn't even possible to have a perfect score on every test. Because that is what a 4.0 average says. That you literally got a perfect score on every test you've ever gotten. That means either you are a genius or the test is too easy. I think that if someone actually got 100% on every test of the mandatory 16 courses in high school only on the highest level of education.. probably be national news.

But how do I know for sure? Well, the biggest example I can think of is this: In my country, people are split up from middle school into certain classes. I don't mean classes where there are chairs and such, but classes of people. These classes are divided up by intelligence. After high school you can go three different ways: medium professional education, higher professional education and University level.

Here comes the difference. A Higher professional education graduate, which is a level below University level, can join a masters program in a university in the US, I know this for a fact. However, if the same person wanted to do a University level masters program here, he has to do a 1 or 2 year transition where he receives a large number of courses you need to be able to do and if you fail one you get kicked out.

Those 1 or 2 years show the difference between actual level of education(70% that start it fails) and also shows you guys, if you actually have been getting 4.0 averages, are working way way waaaay below your level.