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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ivies take the top couple percent of kids--I don't think it's grade inflation that they will mainly earn As. More like appropriate benchmarking. So I think this is kind of a dumb question.[/quote] Anyone who went to an Ivy knows it has plenty of students who fail to meet deadlines, fail to study, procrastinate, party too much, do too much drugs and alcohol, and otherwise screw around. Plus, there are students who suffer from depression and other mental health issues, medical issues, family problems etc that interfere with performance before they can get help. Grading is not an intelligence test. Plenty of really smart people with a history of strong performance in school do poorly and get bad grades (or should get bad grades if they were grading fairly) when they are living on their own in college. It's more than the 20% who didn't get all A's at Yale. [/quote]
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