Actually it's not just google, but almost all the top companies hire new faces based on GPA. Investment banking firms, Google, Consulting firms etc. all recruit from elite schools and usually take the people with the best GPAs. Now if you want to settle for an okay to good job then it's fine don't bother working hard and getting a high GPA. But if you want to work for a fortune 500 company or other top company with all the nice opportunities for growth, benefits etc.. you have to work hard even in college. Not saying that's what I do or want to do but that's the truth.
As for high-school, there is no excuse for a low GPA... in High-school everything is easy even slackers can get As with ease. I'm not saying we should restrict people joining robotics teams based on GPA.
What I am saying is that your GPA is the key to suceeding, it is easy to keep it high while doing little work... so why not just do assignments? High-School assignments are a joke, just sit down for the 35 minutes it usually takes and do the work. You won't regret it.
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No no, they want people who will succeed with as little help as possible. Everyone else is a liability to the institution, and a potentially short-lived revenue source.
GPA measures in the individual those traits required to play the academic game well. These are traits that can be developed though, and it's much easier to do than developing passion for a subject. If you can get young people seriously excited about engineering/math/science, teaching them study skills seems like a trifling matter by comparison.
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The problem is that there are thousands of kids who have passion for things, what sets you apart in a competitive world is when you have passion and in addition to that you have high SAT scores and a good GPA and a load of other things. Secondly colleges/scholarships are usually not willing to overlook the fact that you do poorly in high-school despite it being very easy to do well in.