Joey007
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Thank God you are to tell the rest of us, who are completely in the dark about how awful our school systems have become, what is really going on. And here I thought everything was hucky duck and America was A+ #1 in everything.
It was a close one, but thankfully you gave us the dose of cynicism we needed in this thread.
Please, whatever you do, make sure you always find a way to get on a high horse about any vaguely related topic in threads like this. God knows we have too much good news out there.
Wow I'm sure the university was bending over backwards and risking sanctions to give a former drug dealer a near perfect GPA when the standard to be eligible is much lower because he was so important to their program at that point in time, like Peppers to UNC.
He probably realized if I don't work hard at school with no football for the first quarter I'm going to F up, get arrested again, and be back on the streets.
You simply cannot catch-up on this stuff. It doesn't happen unless you're unbelievably gifted.
Oh, bull. The only prerequisites for a low-level humanities class are knowing how to read and write.
Perhaps the cynics are right, and he got overwhelming amounts of "help" with his papers. But to say he couldn't have done it without undue support is nonsense.
He graduated with a 3.9! God almighty.
This is also like saying the only prerequisities for low level science are arithmetic and subtraction.
A kid who is AWOL in middle school and expelled multiple times in high school has missed too much. If they're athletes though, there's a will and a way.
I hope the kid makes the team. Great football story. The rest of it ... come on.
No he didn't.Read it again!!He graduated with a 3.9! God almighty.
There is a big difference between getting a 3.9 in one quarter which could have been remedial courses or low level entry courses and graduating with a 3.9. Yes, they get help but they also get tutors and it is possible that a dedicated student could have pulled it off despite his checkered past......He earned a 3.9 GPA in his first quarter at UC,
No he didn't.Read it again!!
There is a big difference between getting a 3.9 in one quarter which could have been remedial courses or low level entry courses and graduating with a 3.9. Yes, they get help but they also get tutors and it is possible that a dedicated student could have pulled it off despite his checkered past......
You're coming across as an elitist prick. People getting an education and acquiring good grades is an accomplishment in itself, especially so from a disadvantaged background. The GPA is inconsequential next to the story of overcoming adversity. The particulars shouldn't matter when someone is trying to turn their life around.He graduated with a 3.9! God almighty.
This is also like saying the only prerequisities for low level science are arithmetic and subtraction.
A kid who is AWOL in middle school and expelled multiple times in high school has missed too much. If they're athletes though, there's a will and a way.
I hope the kid makes the team. Great football story. The rest of it ... come on.
Horsepucky. I feel good for the kid. For actual achievements. I.e. football getting him off the streets. The rest of the stuff is likely phony.
You guys don't want to see how the sausage is made. People think U North Carolina is an anomaly. It's not. This stuff is phony from the get-go. Even the NCAA cowtows to this with its ridiculous APR stuff, and you're easily fooled.
You simply cannot catch-up on this stuff. It doesn't happen unless you're unbelievably gifted.
There are lots of ways in which your first term at a new university can be tailored to be easy.
There is absolutely no possible effing way you can spend middle school on the streets and high school getting expelled left and right, arrested, not going to school, and somehow still land in college with the skills you need to succeed--unless you're Einstein.
He's not the only one. Yes, colleges are fond of faking it. Risk sanctions? UNC? What sanctions? UNC isn't the only one.
Good for him on football, but don't go blowing smoke about the rest.
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