[dragonking]

"The Average American Millionaire Graduate With 2.9 GPA."

Source (July 2017, Business Insider): businessinsider.com/eric-barker-millionaires-bad-grades-gpa-2017-6

Why you americans think this is true?

[Targus]

"So Karen Arnold did research at Boston College looking at the success levels of valedictorians."

The reference material in question is outdated by decades (report was published in 1993 to be exact). The basics of academic research skills require a full-fledged report to have references that do not date back to.. like 5+ years or so, depending on the context of the report, how relevant the material is to the report, and whether the reference material is represented as a constant (definitions for terms, how a certain machinery works, etc.). Variables keep on changing to meet the current world's demands, so what may have been back then won't necessarily be the same as today's variables. In this context, using a report that dates back to 1993 as a main source to prove a point in 2018 doesn't exactly sound logical and credible at all.

Say.. before I digress further, let's give the material issue the benefit of the doubt and read more through the article.

"And that’s because what the research found was that school teaches you to comply with rules. So valedictorians often go on to be the people who support the system, they become a part of the system, they don’t change the system or overthrow the system."

Blah.. I'd rather read the outdated report and see what kind of conclusion it reached. Short summaries of length reports are either full of crap, miss out on important details or point in a direction which is unrelated to the report's conclusion. You can read the full conclusion of the report in the link I shared earlier, page 72. Read it out, and compare your new understanding of the report with the botched summary given in the article.

Continuing with the article..

"And so what we see is that the average GPA, college GPA of American millionaires is actually 2.9. And while valedictorians generally score high in the personality trait of conscientiousness. What you see among the millionaires with their 2.9 GPAs is they’re known for grit."

Where did the statistics come from?  😧

The last two sentences are of the author's opinion, so I won't dissect it in detail. I somewhat agree with what he says in some parts, i.e., "...Because in school rules are very clear in life rules are not so clear." This is very true in certain aspects, although it should also be noted that school rules indirectly give students the chance to bypass them in certain situations, AKA to think out of the box. If you do this in a caged environment, then you are more than ready to tackle the issues you face outside the cage.

In my opinion, going to school or scoring good GPAs isn't as bad as the author puts it to be. Educational institutes provides an excellent ground for students to develop personal and professional networks which IMO is far more important than just scoring good grades. A top scorer that is isolated from the rest of the class won't probably  do well in the long run compared to an average scorer that has a really good network in an educational institute.

[primusine]

Being a millionaire isn't such a high bar anymore, not so high that it isolates the population of people who the author claims are finding success through eschewing the rules. Without diving into the scientific data, it has been my experience that people at the highest levels of higher education are there because they see themselves as a part of that system and are advancing from within the system. Put simply, they are less focused on disruption and innovation and more on optimization of the existing processes.

Don't let this video be an excuse to do poorly, do understand the author's intention in underlining this statistic.

[Libertatem]

Unfortunately, personality seems to get you farther in life than anything else.

[grady]

Unfortunately, personality seems to get you farther in life than anything else.

All that says is u have a shit personality fam

[Libertatem]

All that says is u have a shit personality fam

Or that I'm just frustrated that old farts who don't even know Excel are being hired for engineering positions just because they have a nice smile.

[webdev77]

This goes back to the comparison of judging fish on how well they can climb trees. Doing well on written exams does not inherently make you a good employee nor a good leader of a business.

Out of the few recruiters I've spoken with at large companies, GPA is used as a filter initially but is disregarded after that because it has little correlation to actual job performance. Obviously there are reasonable expectations, but in general, as long as you are average or above, it's not going to make a difference in your long term career.

[SIM-2223238]

Source: my ass.

That's my favorite source!

[d4rkj4y]

Or that I'm just frustrated that old farts who don't even know Excel are being hired for engineering positions just because they have a nice smile.

Maybe it's time to learn to be less autistic then

[Libertatem]

Maybe it's time to learn to be less autistic then

I'm genuinely unsure what your goal was there. I'm not whining about people getting jobs over me, I'm saying people are reaching my level with substantially weaker qualifications.