College Grading Cheapening

                           

I’m providing this example of what goes for so-called college grades today.

                           

At the College of the City of New York during World War II, students were admitted only if they had the highest grades in local schools.

                           

If they were getting armed forces draft deferments because they were science and engineering majors, they had many of their classes marked on a “curve.” This was comparable to having to make the cut in professional golf. The lowest 10% to 15% of each class flunked, no matter what mark they got. Classmates competed against each other.

                           

In the toughest college in the city, perhaps the U. S., open only to the top high school graduates, a student with one class “failure” immediately flunked out.

                           

Compare that to the Ivy League college standards of today!

                           

Students go to Ivy League schools because of the aura, and the contacts they afford. The vaunted Ivies are not tough once you are admitted.

If anything, they are overrated. We see their products in Wall Street and government. (See the Earl J. Weinreb NewsHole® comments and @BusinessNewshole at Twitter.)