Meaningless Top College Grades

              

Inflated college marks are now the norm around the country. Pay the tuition and pass with flying colors.

                   

What used to be called a Gentlemen’s C” grade for the class dummy is now the “Gentlemen’s A” for all.

                   

It’s hard for today’s students to believe but the following is fact you will never, never get from a current college manual:

                                                   

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

                   

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

                   

In the toughest college in perhaps the U. S., open only to the best high school graduates, a student with one class “failure” immediately got tossed from the college..

                   

Compare that to the Ivy League standards of today! Students go to Ivy League schools because of the aura about them, and the contacts they afford. The overrated Ivies are not academically tough. (See the Earl J. Weinreb NewsHole® comments and @BusinessNewshole at Twitter.)