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<p>I wasn’t disputing you on the fact more students had Cs in the past. </p>
<p>Only merely stating that there was just as much disdain for C students back then among many college students as there is currently. I wonder if this disdain coupled with the legacy admissions on steroids for Ivies and other elite private universities, the commonplace flagship public universities’ policies of using tough grading to weed out weaker students after comparatively easier admissions policies*, and the comparative lack of care for undergrad grades because there were so few college grads that getting an undergrad degree was regarded as a great achievement unto itself in that earlier period?</p>
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<li>Heard plenty of stories about how public flagships in the 1960’s and before would have easy admissions…but then use weedout grading policies to flunk out around half of the entering class within the first two years.</li>
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