N) In Georgia, high school grades rose after the state began awarding HOPE scholarships to students with a 3.0 high school GPA. But the scholarship requires students to keep a 3.0 GPA in college, too, and more than half who received the HOPE in the fall of 1998 and entered the University of Georgia system lost eligibility before earning 30 credits. Next year, Georgia is taking a range of steps to tighten eligibility, including calculating GPA itself rather than relying on schools, and no longer giving extra GPA weight to vaguely labeled honors classes.
O) Among those who work with students gunning for the more selective colleges, opinions differ as to why there seem to be so many straight-A students. I think there are more pressures now than there used to be, because 20 or 30 years ago kids with a B plus average got into some of the best colleges in the country, said William Shain, dean of admissions and financial aid at Bowdoin College in Maine. It didn,t matter if you had a 3.9 instead of a 3.95. I don,t know if it matters now either, but people are more likely to think it does.
P) Lord, the Haverford dean, sees grade inflation as the outcome of an irrational fear among students to show any slip upin grades or discipline. In fact, colleges like his are often more interested in students who have overcome failure and challenge than robots who have never been anything less than perfect. There,s a protection and encouragement of self-esteem that I dont agree with, but I think its a lot of whats going on here, he said. And the college admissions process feeds into that.
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