GPA's are forever
Pain is temporary, but GPA is forever.
This is a common statement around school and social media these days by stating that school and tests are hard and pain full but you're going to continue pushing through because you need the good grades and high GPA for college and your future career.
Something that I've always questioned is, how much do grades of athletes and non-athletes vary? If they vary at all? I've always wondered this because to me doing sports and handling my classes wasn't that much of a challenge until I got into middle school and had to learn to deal with 7 different classes, practices, and games. I am lucky enough to not have to work, so now that I got it figured out, and I am balancing 4 AP/Honors classes, 2 college classes, and 3 different sports with basically no problems. To figure out if there truly was a change in grades, I researched the difference between athletes and non-athlete’s GPA’s.
I found an experiment done by Ryan Stegall, who graduated from the University of Missouri, titled “A Study in the Grade Point Average of Athletes vs. Non-Athletes.” With all the data collected through-out his experiment, Stegall created a graph (shown below) which shows that the mean, median, and minimum grades of student athletes were better than those of the non-athletes. This proves that even though athletes may have more of a challenge with the time crunching to finish assignments or study for tests, the necessary GPA required to play forces them to work that much harder to maintain proper grades and continue doing what they love.
This is a common statement around school and social media these days by stating that school and tests are hard and pain full but you're going to continue pushing through because you need the good grades and high GPA for college and your future career.
Something that I've always questioned is, how much do grades of athletes and non-athletes vary? If they vary at all? I've always wondered this because to me doing sports and handling my classes wasn't that much of a challenge until I got into middle school and had to learn to deal with 7 different classes, practices, and games. I am lucky enough to not have to work, so now that I got it figured out, and I am balancing 4 AP/Honors classes, 2 college classes, and 3 different sports with basically no problems. To figure out if there truly was a change in grades, I researched the difference between athletes and non-athlete’s GPA’s.
I found an experiment done by Ryan Stegall, who graduated from the University of Missouri, titled “A Study in the Grade Point Average of Athletes vs. Non-Athletes.” With all the data collected through-out his experiment, Stegall created a graph (shown below) which shows that the mean, median, and minimum grades of student athletes were better than those of the non-athletes. This proves that even though athletes may have more of a challenge with the time crunching to finish assignments or study for tests, the necessary GPA required to play forces them to work that much harder to maintain proper grades and continue doing what they love.
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