GPAs Don’t Really Show What Students Learned. Here’s Why. - Opinion

Tom Solomon and Adam Piggott, faculty members at Bucknell University (PA), write:  Society has an unhealthy infatuation with grade point averages.  The three-digit number purports to represent the sum of a student’s academic accomplishments in a supposedly uniform fashion. Our reliance on it is reinforced in its use for awarding certain honors (such as cum laude), obtaining and maintaining scholarship status, and hiring for internships or even jobs after graduation. Yet all of this attention belies the fact that GPA is a seriously flawed statistic.