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To: ahhaha who wrote (1958)5/26/1998 11:30:00 AM
From: Mark Finger  Read Replies (1) of 3194
 
>>Good grades don't guarantee success. Gates dropped out.

Actually, the primary reason Gates dropped out was because he was so busy making money that he did not have time for school. I do not remember seeing what his grades were, but I seem to remember that they were adequate through his first three semesters. They may have slid his last semester when he spent so much time on BASIC.

One other problem is that grades may be irrelevant to genius level people. They often are simply not stimulated by some of the subjects at hand, and so their grades will suffer. This is not because they can't do the work or don't know the material; they just are not interested in performing on the tests. I have seen this a number of times with people I knew. Remember that Gates got a perfect score on the SAT math section (an 800). In those days there were only a handful of people who would achieve this each year (before they renormed the tests a few years ago to give 800's for less than perfect tests).
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