[Mr. Jeeves]

If you decided to implement a traditional bell-curve, then you might assign 10% to "failing". If everyone effectively aced a test, how do you do that?

That's one valid argument, but another might be that they have started letting in too many St. Barack-like Affirmative Action quota-fillers whom they don't dare stigmatize with a racist grade like "F".

It would cause Yale no end of trouble if the class had 60% A's and 40% F's, and protected groups made up the entire 40%.

[justlurking]

That's one valid argument, but another might be that they have started letting in too many St. Barack-like Affirmative Action quota-fillers whom they don't dare stigmatize with a racist grade like "F".

Yeah, that occurred to me. But, I don't know how you deal with that without penalizing the people that were competitive admissions.