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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In the 1990s, I went to a school where a C was still the average. I only knew a few people who had a 3.5 or 3.6. Now these kids all have 3.8 or 3.9s, at least a 3.7. I once looked at the average gpas at a few middle tier medical schools and even there the average gpas of accepted students were like 3.7, which means that half if the students have over this!!! Do professors give out As like gumballs now or what is going on? [/quote]

Yes. Exactly.  No one can handle the fact that they're a C student.  Your average, run of the mill student is a C student.  These days, average has been scaled up to a B/B-. Students at the university level lose their minds when they don't get an A for the first time in their lives when they take a course with zero grade inflation. [/quote]
Yes, how in the F are thousands of students pulling 3.8s when they have to take Organic Chemistry, physics, and biochem in addition to math and humanities courses? Do we really have this many well-rounded geniuses in our midst?  :lol: [/quote]

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