[nilkn]

I know tons of high school students who attempt the strategies you just described. The great majority of them barely scrape by with Bs and Cs and they do indeed crash and burn in college. You are not even remotely a representative case.

[wavegeek]

Agree.

The guy who cruised though high school and even the early years of college only to crash and burn later on is so common it is a cliche. This is part of the price we pay for not challenging our brightest students.

With dumbed down courses these days it may be possible to get a degree without actually learning much. I know I have met a lot of people with IT degrees who could not program the foobar 'challenge' to save their lives.

[seanmcdirmid]

It actually depends more on what the college is and what the classes. Is it a party school and are the courses in a soft major? Or is it a tier one research university and the courses are weed outs for engineering or medical school?

I was one of those students in high school, and I could see it going either way (thankfully, I took the hard classes and got my act together).

[ploxiln]

Yeah, but isn't it annoying being told you're the equivalent of a representative case? When you're not?