[Artemis Webb]

"You're living in the past. Those schools don't award Cs anymore. 80% of the kids at those schools graduate with some form of honors. They get a B+ now just for showing up."

Source?

[irishjuggler]

Source?

I apologize. The 80% graduating with honors thing might be wrong. It's probably higher.

The distorting effects of grade inflation at Harvard were uncovered earlier this fall by a Boston Globe investigation, which disclosed that an astonishing 91 percent of Harvard graduates received honors last in June.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/09/opinion/why-grade-inflation-is-serious.html

See also:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/2002/02/08/edtwof2.htm

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.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1133702