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<p>Almost every school (including many of the highly selective and prestigious ones) has its “gut” courses and majors, so whether someone can get a easy A grades depends a lot on course and major selection. Getting all easy A grades could be more difficult at schools with heavy breadth requirements that cannot be fulfilled with “gut” courses (MIT is such a school; Harvard does not appear to be).</p>
<p>Yes, at Harvard, there is the famously difficult Math 55a-55b, but there is also Math Ma-Mb (similar to high school AP calculus AB).</p>
<p>Also, most of the more selective schools have more [grade</a> inflation](<a href=“http://www.gradeinflation.com%5Dgrade”>http://www.gradeinflation.com).</p>