The thing about Ivy league is once you get in, you have to do very little work to pass. It’s soooo expensive they don’t want little Timmy failing. To get an A is probably as difficult as it is in a state school, maybe.
You are so confused.
Both my kids went to Ivy League schools.
The vast majority of the students are workaholics, and more than half are on some form of financial assistance.
At Princeton there is NO grade inflation and the kids are graded on a curve.
My daughter worked a part time job the whole time she was there and graduated with a 3.0, working like a dog.
My son was a neuroscience major and also worked very hard for a 3.3.
The reason a lot of the kids at the Ivies get good grades is because they are very smart, super competitive, and they work hard.
Please talk about things you know, otherwise you risk sounding like you don’t know what you are talking about.
I find what you say about the Ivy League very interesting. My only connection to those schools comes from the film and tv series “The Paper Chase.” What I remember SO vividly in the movie was how incredibly hard those kids worked. It was very impressive. Now either times have changed or the movie was exaggerating. Probably the former.
The Ivy League is different from the world most of America in habits. Consider the size and yield of Ivy League endowments. Using Harvard as an example, if the Harvard Medical College, which has the most expensive tuition in the world, were to charge no, repeat “NO” tuition, the only impact on the endowment would be that said endowment would grow at a somewhat slower rate.
Money means different things in the Ivy League world. Grade inflation exists there, but cash flow is not part of the reason as even if Bill Gates were a Harvard ‘legacy’ grad, his potential donations would neither make nor break Harvard’s endowment.
After all, if one computes the value of investments for one or two hundred years, one realizes “Compound Interest IS YOUR FRIEND!” And, there is the small matter of real estate donations, which become tax exempt upon donation.
Harvard now owns a goodly part of Cambridge, Mass. 250 years of donations can do that. Ditto for other Ivy League schools.
That is true, I think they give a B- to those who get 33% on their test grades.
They never let their average drop below a B because that is often cause to drop out of college programs.