well I imagine getting an A at Ivy League school isn't easy, it shouldn't be, after all you have the creme de la creme of the United States, supposedly going to those schools...
I had the same shock in Law School, I got an A average in undergraduate but getting A's in Law School was real tough the professors were stingy, some didn't give out any A's but you are in a class of 150 people who are at least as smart as you and many were much more, it's a blow to the ego but I managed to finish in the top third of the class...I still hate the guy that never cracked upon a text book or so he claims, I wonder, he not only had an A average but he was in the combined Law MBA program, there were 4 guys in the program when I went to school, for the real ambitious types, aiming real high......
I still remember our final exam in third year, it was the dreaded income tax exam - we were all sitting at a favourite off campus hangout, on the outdoor patio, on a beautiful day in early May, silently stunned, gazing at our beer, because none of us had finished the exam, it was a required course, what happens if we fail, we all had our articling jobs lined up etc......the good news is they bell curved it and most of us passed...some professors are just sadist, man.........
but I digress, yeah D is for distinction, you have distinquished yourself from the rest of the class, Jean Francois, he should have gone to the Sorbonne and taking crepe making.......
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Grade inflation at the Ivy League schools is well-known.
"Student's grades at Harvard University have soared in the last 10 years. According to a report issued Tuesday by the dean of undergraduate education, nearly half of the grades issued last year were A's or A-minuses. In 1985, just a third of the grades were A or A-minus. Linda Wertheimer talks with Susan Pedersen, Dean of Undergraduate Education and a Professor of History at Harvard University, about grade inflation."