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<p>And so that means that, right or wrong, your opinions seem to be distinctly within the minority. Perhaps you could convince the vast majority of other programs to stop grading people on curves. Engineering and hard science programs are particularly known for harsh curves and hence would seem to be areas of prime reform.</p>
<p>I’m happy that you were apparently able to attend a school (Yale) that does not implement harsh curves and does not grade its students relative to each other. Sadly, the rest of us aren’t that fortunate. Heck, even at Princeton, one of Yale’s close peers, the percentage of A’s that can be assigned is now strictly circumscribed.</p>