Comment Here is why it DOES suck (Score 1, Offtopic) 971
I worked my ass off at UC Davis for a computer engineering degree. Students who were in majors would complain about _a_ weeder class that was hard. Well, for CE the entire major was a bunch of extremely difficult "weeder" classes. I suffered from what the article describes in regards to low grades for high amount of effort. I graduated in 2003 with a 3.2 cum GPA.
The reason this sucks is because now I am applying for an MBA where your undergraduate GPA matters. Even though I scored a 710 on my GMAT (93 percentile), my relatively low GPA has resulted in refusal letters from schools where my GMAT score was above the average of the incoming class.