<p>Quoting AMC987:
I can relate to what you said here. My child was a top student at a top High School. But I can sense that it is much more challenging for him to pull an A consistently at Yale. It does not help that to graduate from Yale, it requires 4 more courses than most other schools would require, and he is advised by his adviser at UCS to take all 36 courses with grades (in order to be a “competitive” applicant to professional schools.)</p>