Posted on 05/21/2014 1:57:13 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Traditionally a 4.0 is considered a perfect grade point average, but Dhara Patel, a high school senior at Plant City High School in Hillsborough County, Fla., has earned an off-the-charts 10.03 GPA.
This is good news considering the new link between GPAs and salary. A recent study by researchers at the University of Miami states that a one-point increase in high school GPA raises annual earnings in adulthood by around 12 percent for men and 14 percent for women.
The study also shows that even a one-point increase in GPA doubles the likelihood of students completing college—from 21 percent to 42 percent—for both men and women.
“Conventional wisdom is that academic performance in high school is important for college admission, but this is the first study to clearly demonstrate the link between high school GPA and labor market earnings many years later,” says Michael T. French, professor of health economics at the University of Miami and corresponding author of the study.
To contribute to her astronomical GPA, Patel took 17 Advanced Placement classes. AP classes, which are on par with college courses, are often weighted, meaning that students who take them receive extra points. That helps those students accumulate a GPA way off the traditional 4.0 chart. While we are unsure if this is the highest GPA ever, we certainly can't find any other press about it. Ravi Medikonda, then a senior at King High School in Hillsborough County, Fla., earned a 9.3079 GPA in 2012.
Aside from the AP classes, Patel also spent nights, weekends, and summers studying at Hillsborough Community College. To add to her accolades, she’s earned her associate’s degree before even graduating from high school.
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That is just astounding !
And that is their choice - if they want the higher GPA they can choose not to play sports and instead focus on the AP courses. See - free will, free to choose - you shouldn’t expect those who want to put their all into education to share it with those who want to play.
When I graduated high school 60 years ago I had a 4.0 and that was as high as you could get.
I think everyone is misunderstanding my statement.
I have no intention of “giving” an athlete a grade he doesn’t deserve.
I’m saying that there are some outstanding athletes who are also outstanding scholars, with just as outstanding 5.0s in every AP class they take, yet they are not in the top 10% of their class ranking, because their other activities are not ranked as high.
A student who can pull all 5.0s in every AP class AND be an all-star quarterback AND be an all-state musician is a much better overall performer than the kid who sits at home studying all day. Yet the “system” has no way to measure that.
The key point, here, is the student in question has EARNED 5.0s in AP classes and still participated in sports, not given A’s to stay on the team.
Wow, what an exceptional young lady.
Mother is probably the most underappreciated job in our society.
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