The Tyranny of Straight A’s

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  May 29th at 12:00 PM  | 

Across a wide range of schools, As represent 43% of all letter grades, an increase of 28 percentage points since 1960 and 12 percentage points since 1988. Ds and Fs total typically less than 10% of all letter grades. Private colleges and universities give, on average, significantly more As and Bs combined than public institutions with equal student selectivity. (HT:Mark J. Perry) Hey! You wannna | Read More »