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<p>No, it isn't. Only two students I know of have graduated with straight As in the last 10 years or so. I know that because they both got written up in the papers: they were unusual enough. And they happened to be siblings (one graduating a year after the other). At Harvard, as at Princeton and other colleges, it is not THAT difficult to get A-s. It is much rarer to get As. And getting straight As all four years, well, it gets you written up in the paper.</p>