A HARVARD UNIVERSITY report last spring complained of grade inflation that makes it easier to get high grades.
Knowing that he had no chance at athletic accomplishment, he resolved to get high grades.
JEFFREY TOOBIN: Get high grades, get on law review, and get a clerkship with a "feeder" lower court judge.
In the pinch, Marcel Grossmann, a brilliant math student whose meticulous lecture notes helped Einstein get high grades at the Zurich Polytechnic, managed to secure him a job at the Swiss Patent Office, in Bern.
"Another myth is that engineering only needs academics who get high grades in all the science subjects and want to spend a long time at university before going into a research and development role," Hanbury says.
Then, the newest freshman class of academic superstars -- who also happen to be prize-winning scientists, professional-caliber musicians, athletes, leaders and do-gooders -- arrive on campus and are promptly told to cool it (but still get high grades to get into good graduate schools).
Re "The College Admissions Derby" (Op-Ed, April 13): It is likely that students who feel that they must compromise their values to get high grades and test scores are aware of such behavior in government and business, as exemplified by the Enron scandals.
Goals serving as incentive motivators do not even need to physically exist at the time they activate behaviour, such as might be the case for someone who is motivated to get high grades now in order to eventually get into medical school.
Risky, long-term funds get high grades when rates are declining ("up markets") and low grades in markets when rates are rising ("down markets").
As I was speaking to one young lady last year, I explained that she needed to get high grades and take classes that prepared her to transfer.
Added Soujoud: "I like these worksheets because they are easy to use and I can get high grades".
