Less than 1.5% of undergrads attend an “elite” university, yet somehow we manage…
One of those very astute and typically very driven students tried to copy off me during a calculus test in high school. I didn’t let him, and he teared up in class when he got his grade. Probably not fair, but that’s the day I lost a lot of respect for most typically driven and very astute students.
I don’t think I’d hire someone who chose their university based on their perceived ability to get good grades. To me, that indicates a lack of depth of character
Everything is better in the US, bwahahahaha! Just kidding…now that our university research programs have been kneecapped, smart, capable students should look elsewhere.
Right. Don’t talk about your grades at the new job you already got! That does not mean, at all, that your grades weren’t critical in getting your new job. If you’ve gotten hired at that first-tier investment banking job, the senior partner you’re working with doesn’t care about your grades - and your grades were absolutely essential in you getting hired for that first-tier job in the first place.
Sure, there are lots of employers that don’t bother to ask about grades - but for the most part, those aren’t the employers that are relevant to the specific group we’re talking about: Harvard students (and uber-elite colleges more generally). Those employers - the most competitive internship programs and first year programs in the world - are very interested in your grades. To say nothing of all the graduate programs that about half these kids will end up in, eventually.
So while this is good advice for the person he’s delivering it to - the person who has finished college and did so with excellent grades - it is in no way useful advice about whether a college student should care about whether they get good grades.