Study hard, earn good grades and career success will follow.

Actually, a new study finds that this common advice given to college students isn’t true.

The grades of new college graduates who are men don’t appear to matter much in their job searches, according to a new study. And female graduates may be punished for high levels of academic achievement. The study comes at a time of growing evidence that female students are outperforming their male counterparts academically in college (after also having done so in high school).

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