And that doesn't even consider pre-university studies, where having less than an A/B average certainly does make you unattractive to all decent universities!
Our entire educational system is geared around "Produce excellence or die trying, there is no place for mediocrity." Predictably, this causes students to look for ways to easy apparent excellence.
The fact that actual excellence comes from a philosophy that's more like "Do the impossible, see the invisible" than "successfully regurgitate 100% of what you were told" doesn't even show up in the educational system until the grad-school level.
Our entire educational system is geared around "Produce excellence or die trying, there is no place for mediocrity." Predictably, this causes students to look for ways to easy apparent excellence.
The fact that actual excellence comes from a philosophy that's more like "Do the impossible, see the invisible" than "successfully regurgitate 100% of what you were told" doesn't even show up in the educational system until the grad-school level.