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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone gets As because there are buffers in place to raise scores if lower grades are earned for difficult exams.  I know this first hand from my daughter’s difficult stem major at an Ivy.  If the extra assignments, points and bonus questions are removed, the curve will emerge naturally.  These practices begin in HS btw.  [/quote]

We are at public and my kids don't get extra credits and extra assignments.  A couple of retakes here and there but inconsequential.

I think kids today's are expected to do so much for admission.  I got into MIT, and though I like to believe I have more common sense than my 17 yo, she is way more academically accomplished than her father (harvard in 90s) was.

I am sure there are students who slack and are rotten apples, but I believe this generation of college students have exceptional stress and distractions/temptations that my generation never had to deal with.  My generation created tools and enable our children to use them in early years, sign them up for a competive activities from an early age, and now we blame them without taking responsibility for the things we do.  (this includes climate change/the debt/etc).  I hope this generation forgives 
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Parents from MIT and Harvard and the kid goes to public !. What am I missing?[/quote] An understanding of regression to the mean[/quote]

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