school daze

It’s Really Hard to Sleep at Princeton

Yesterday the New York Times uncovered what keeps Princeton students, whose faculty are under orders to curb grade inflation, awake at night:

“The nightmare scenario, if you will, is that you apply with a 3.5 from Princeton and someone just as smart as you applies with a 3.8 from Yale,” said Daniel E. Rauch, a senior from Millburn, N.J.


Indeed. There’s definitely something about this that sounds like a very bad dream.

Type-A-Plus Students Chafe at Grade Deflation [NYT]



Indeed. There’s definitely something about this that sounds like a very bad dream.

Type-A-Plus Students Chafe at Grade Deflation [NYT]

It’s Really Hard to Sleep at Princeton