My school's average GPA was between 2.7 and 3.0 while I attended. From 1874 to 1996 (my undergrad exit) nobody had ever graduated with a 4.0. Lots of HS valedictorians failed out by the second semester. Every one of us got a big slap of reality and for some the first bad grades of our lives. Most of us sucked it up and got better. The rest transferred to Boulder...
