Originally Posted by Val
See, I find this information to be really depressing. IMO, these colleges are basically saying that there's no room for making mistakes, with B+ grades (or really, even A-'s) apparently counting as "mistakes."
I don't think it is as bad as it seems, as Harvard at least takes our school kids regularly without the 4.0 unweighted.

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Personally, I believe that our society really, really needs people who screwed up, dusted themselves off only to mess up again, and eventually learned from their mistakes and made something out of them.
This works well in the tech industry, where VCs do give people second chances. Sad it doesn't seem to happen in academia.