Grades

[Rye]

I'm not outwardly geeky. Most people don't even understand why they call myself a geek, until they see that I'm a huge closet geek when it comes to academic achievement. I hide my neat binder and my highlighters. Last semester, I worked for hours most days on my school work. I kind of enjoyed it too. When I work in groups, I enjoy doing the majority of the work... :aimblush:

3.9 GPA for my first two years of college, being that my upcoming study abroad year won't count into my GPA whatsoever (this is my party year before I have to work hard again and do student teacher, w00t w00t). I'm loving it.

Now when I get back from England, I get to transfer to a school in New York, and I pretty much get the pick of the lot, except for probably the SUPER ELITE colleges, like Columbia and Vassar, which are just too expensive anyway. I'm really proud of my hard work!

EDIT: Also, I have to disagree with that, AK, when it comes to university. Now, if you were talking about High Schools, I'd agree. In the US, the level of difficulty between schools of different regions vary greatly being that states themselves are able to set the bar (lol no child left behind), which is why you'll get really some really dumb kids from some states that have these insane 4.0 grades somehow, when in another state that holds the bar really high and do much more testing and have higher standards for passing, like Connecticut, Vermont or NY, that person would have a lower grade. That, unfortunately, is why the horrible SATs were put into fruitation.

But colleges are much more structured. In actuality, a lot of the schools in the US scale down grades, such as Boston University, so that if most students get a low A, the grade is really a B, and only perfect grades get A's, etc, etc.

Sources: All the professors from the teacher education classes I've taken, textbooks from said classes, and reading the news.