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in most cases?
I remember four years back I was sitting at graduation and one guy said that the valedictorian of my friend's high school (it was his graduation but I went anyways and I was sitting with the parents) will go on to do great things in life and achieve a lot. The valedictorian was a cocky person with a high sense of entitlement who usually loved to put others down and loved to talk trash and bash others. The adults thought he was a sweet boy with lots to offer to the world.
The valedictorian got into Brown and my friend today commented on his facebook status. The valedictorian of his high school seems to be thinking suicide because his GPA at Brown is low, he is afraid to tell his parents and he missed his chance of going to med school.
ON THE OTHER HAND
Today I talked to my friend (a girl) back in high school who finished with a low B average and did not do much, was a huge slacker. Well it just came to me that she MANAGED to transfer to Cornell University from a community college, has maintained a good GPA at Cornell and has plans of going to med school. She took the MCAT and made a 31 on it, plans on retaking it for a better score.
this just had me thinking, do grades, academic achievements and so forth in high school really determine how good of a life you are going to live in the future?
I remember four years back I was sitting at graduation and one guy said that the valedictorian of my friend's high school (it was his graduation but I went anyways and I was sitting with the parents) will go on to do great things in life and achieve a lot. The valedictorian was a cocky person with a high sense of entitlement who usually loved to put others down and loved to talk trash and bash others. The adults thought he was a sweet boy with lots to offer to the world.
The valedictorian got into Brown and my friend today commented on his facebook status. The valedictorian of his high school seems to be thinking suicide because his GPA at Brown is low, he is afraid to tell his parents and he missed his chance of going to med school.
ON THE OTHER HAND
Today I talked to my friend (a girl) back in high school who finished with a low B average and did not do much, was a huge slacker. Well it just came to me that she MANAGED to transfer to Cornell University from a community college, has maintained a good GPA at Cornell and has plans of going to med school. She took the MCAT and made a 31 on it, plans on retaking it for a better score.
this just had me thinking, do grades, academic achievements and so forth in high school really determine how good of a life you are going to live in the future?
