Comments on: Celebrating Mediocrity http://www.colborne2016.com/2008/06/16/celebrating-mediocrity/ A future tense blog in a present tense world. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:03:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: James Pierce http://www.colborne2016.com/2008/06/16/celebrating-mediocrity/comment-page-1/#comment-210 James Pierce Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:09:02 +0000 http://www.colborne2016.com/?p=751#comment-210 1) I agree that if you can not pull a 3.0 in High School,you have NO business at a 4 year University. I pulled a 3.17 in High School without even trying. Granted I was really pissed off at the system for screwing me over back in 8th and 9th grade, but that is a different story. I know of a handful of honor students (from my High School) who graduated with high GPA's that went on to Universities just to get kicked out due to their grades. I ended up at a Tech College where I got a 2 year degree (actually 3 AA degrees) and graduated with a 3.45 GPA. Figures my GPA would go up when all I have to take is classes I am interested in. Then again, I was completely determined to get through college and get out to the workforce. 2) As for making things easier for minorities to get in to college... Yeah, we should do more. By the time my kids are old enough for college, they could be a minority. I'm not trying to be racist, just saying this country gets more diverisifed everyday. 1) I agree that if you can not pull a 3.0 in High School,you have NO business at a 4 year University. I pulled a 3.17 in High School without even trying. Granted I was really pissed off at the system for screwing me over back in 8th and 9th grade, but that is a different story.

I know of a handful of honor students (from my High School) who graduated with high GPA’s that went on to Universities just to get kicked out due to their grades. I ended up at a Tech College where I got a 2 year degree (actually 3 AA degrees) and graduated with a 3.45 GPA. Figures my GPA would go up when all I have to take is classes I am interested in. Then again, I was completely determined to get through college and get out to the workforce.

2) As for making things easier for minorities to get in to college… Yeah, we should do more. By the time my kids are old enough for college, they could be a minority. I’m not trying to be racist, just saying this country gets more diverisifed everyday.

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