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Urban Myth?

posted 20 years ago by cloudcube
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I really liked this movie. The ending was brilliant.
When they were going on about a 4.0 average is that really good? Also is this possible if your roommate dies/commits suicide does your grades get a boost because you have to deal with the emotional strain of their death?
The whole ‘you get straight A’s has been done in quite a few movies, is this some old urban myth or has it actually happened in extreme cases?
I would just like to add that Michael Vartan was well hot in it, especially at the end!

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[–] LibertyCityLazlow 20 years ago

Matthew Lillard is hot,and funny...

ANNNNYWAY,awnsering your question..i believe it does happen in VERY extreme cases in America,but thats only if its VERY-DEEPLY-HORRIFYING extreme.

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[–] funkbunnee 20 years ago

keri russell (is that her name?) is hella hot...

i checked at my college in england and it doesnt happen (but we dont live there so no room mates anyways), but hell it might be fun to see if i can make friends committ suicide anyway... sometihn to pass the time.

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[–] movieman-160 20 years ago

yes, this is a myth.
http://www.snopes.com/college/admin/suicide.asp
it's never REALLY happened.
if it were true, students would be killing each other off oin schools around the world.
lets face it, which is more difficult....

a semester of studying, ORRRRRRRRR>>>>>

pushing the deranged practically there already suicidal freak room mate just the last little bit over the edge...

[–] fossil005 20 years ago

its not just extreme cases. if your roommate dies and you are the least bit "distressed" then you get a 4.0 for the semester/year depending on how "hard" it hits you. its there but you don't talk about it.

[–] akittencalledjen 18 years ago

For those in the UK, a 4.0 is a first-the max grade you can get.

[–] david_murphy_001 18 years ago

But a first isn't a GPA 4.0. I got a first (just) at 71%. You can't really translate them in this sense. Which is why the US has the GRE/GMAT etc. Even though they offed their roomie and got a (semester's) 4 point GPA, they'd still have to ace their GREs and GMATs and whatever else!

[–] IMissGoodMovies 18 years ago

According to snopes.com it IS just an Urban Myth. I wouldn't think it was something colleges ACTUALLY do. There are so many people at college who obsess so much that they probably WOULD actually plot to kill their roommate or to get them to commit suicide. No college would want that hanging over their head.

[–] abstract_karma 17 years ago

I'd love to think it was true. But I'd have probably killed someone too.

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[–] Mr_Jack_Frost 17 years ago

A counselor and the a school board, in schools that allow it, can overrule a teacher (if the teacher doesn't allow it) and permit a student to receive bonus points for past assignments, NOT an automatic 4.0 as some believe. Although this can apply to any situation imaginable, I don't think a college has ever compensated for an emotional loss generated by the suicide of a room mate. Before anybody contradicts me, I should also point out that I heard all of this from a recruiter from OSU (Oklahoma State University).

[–] dreambeliever2004 17 years ago

Well, many colleges have it where you are not given a 4.0....but, you, if you are very disturbed and sitressed by it, are give nthe grade that you had the day of/before your roomie killed himself. So, ino ther words, you might (note the word might) not have to come back to finish the semester/take finals. But, this varies.

[–] Siriusje 16 years ago

They state in the movie: "If the uni gives you A's, we won't tell anyone"
So you never know until you try it :P

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[–] di1an 12 years ago

Well in England you can have cancer and have parents drop dead (as happened to two of my housemates), all you're getting is deferred exams and hand in dates for work, or just repeat the year at no cost. NO way you're getting free points whatsoever. And if that's what happens in USA just cause your *beep* roomy whom you've known a fraction of your life offs themselves, well, talk about a free ride. I guess all of George W Bush's roommates killed themselves then. Explain a lot.

[–] pennilayne 8 years ago

I guess all of George W Bush's roommates killed themselves then. Explain a lot.

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