Question

Admission to the prestigious school had become so competitive that a high gpa is no longer enough to separate one fresh-faced high school student from another. Today's outstanding candidate must also demonstrate their involvement in a myriad of extracurricular activities in order to be admitted. It seems that good grades are now:

Answer 1

It seems that good grades are now just not enough to be able to be admitted to a prestigious school.

Maybe good grades now are getting too "common" and prestigious schools won´t admit people that can do just the common thing, they need excpecinal skilled students.