<p>MIT is DEFINITELY the hardest place to recieve high grades. All I need to say is the average GPA at MIT: 3.1 on a 4.0 scale..... Pre-med students work their behinds off to get that avg 3.62 (believe me I have many friends who are premed there) and I'm sure at most schools that would be too low for Med School but at MIT that GPA is an accomplishment. As for caps, you won't find any as MIT does not enforce such things (just a simple bell curve determined by how the class in general does).</p>