[JJJ]

0.1% had GPA from 2.5 to 2.99, and 0.1% had GPA from 2.0 to 2.49. 
[That last one is curious.]

Two possibilities I can think of:

• the smartest guy in my public high school -- arguably the smartest guy I have personally known -- was a C student.  He was so smart that he was bored and didn't bother to turn in homework.  His artificially low GPA made him the secret weapon for the Academic Decathlon team which required a mix of A, B, and C students.
  
• maybe the person was a late bloomer like this guy who wrote a Stanford Daily article about being a 30-year-old freshman after getting kicked out of the Navy.    (He has several other short pieces worth reading as well.  Click on his byline to get to them.)
  

Thanks for sharing the 30yr old freshman story! How did I not come across this before? Great read!

[JJJ]

0.1% had GPA from 2.5 to 2.99, and 0.1% had GPA from 2.0 to 2.49. 
[That last one is curious.]

Two possibilities I can think of:

• the smartest guy in my public high school -- arguably the smartest guy I have personally known -- was a C student.  He was so smart that he was bored and didn't bother to turn in homework.  His artificially low GPA made him the secret weapon for the Academic Decathlon team which required a mix of A, B, and C students.
  
• maybe the person was a late bloomer like this guy who wrote a Stanford Daily article about being a 30-year-old freshman after getting kicked out of the Navy.    (He has several other short pieces worth reading as well.  Click on his byline to get to them.)
  

Thanks for sharing the 30yr old freshman story! How did I not come across this before? Great read!