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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought Harvard was/is PASS or FAIL???????   :shock: [/quote]

Lots of experience with top schools, huh?  For the record, the percentage of "Latin honors" magna, summa, cum laude at Harvard is capped at 60% of the class, lower than the percentage 50 years ago. Before the cap was instituted, the percentage had risen to over 90% in the mid 1990s.

Why is it surprising that a school full of entrants with perfect SAT scores, 4.5 high school GPAs and awesome extracurriculars and want to go to grad school would study hard and learn the materials for their classes in college?  Except in classes designed to cull students like organic chemistry, there is no real need for forced curves. Professors set a standard and smart, hard charging student work hard to meet it. [b]Harvard isn't full of students like those at a state college that need six years to graduate[/b].

[b]Many people going to state school worked their way through college[/b], a concept that your snide comment indicates that you are unfamiliar with.
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Actually, most people who go to state school need to work part-time during college.[/quote]

My DC goes to a flagship state school and many of the OOS students do not seem to be working their way through college. Sure there are some doing work study, but that's true at all colleges, including my other DCs private SLAC.[/quote]

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