What difference do increases in already-high grades make?

Let's say theoretically person A scored an average of 96.5% on his final year of school. Let's also say theoretically that person B was an exact replica of person A in every way, shape, form, except for his final year of school grades, which happen to be 98.5%. Scholarships for the most part only require about 95% or higher and at that point you can be accepted into any good college or university, whether you're person A or B, and would probably get a good scholarship at either grades. Then, what could motivate me to be more like person B than A?

Additionally, if anybody here knows about the British grading systems, where whether you get 96% or 100% you're marked as a 9 or A* based on board/location, do colleges, universities, and scholarship givers of all sorts care only about you being a 9 or A* or do they actually care about the somewhat major difference of 4% in grades?

Submitted January 26, 2022 at 03:47PM by pisscumpiss https://ift.tt/34aZk5R