grade inflation:

Princeton recently ruled that their undergraduate classes cannot receive more than 35% A's (+,- included). This might be a great step in reducing grade inflation, but overlooks several important factors; first, small seminars of 5 or 7 people-- would it really be that only one of those people deserve an A? Or what about an introductory level class, like a survey course of european history-- would only 35% of students be legitimately eligiable for A's when most of the material covered in such a course is left over from high school?

Its a nice effort on princeton's part to try and curb their students' sense of entitlement and ever high GPA's, but i dont think mandatory ratios of A's and B's is the solution. I can only imagine the implimentation of such a policy at Rutgers-- suddenly alot more people would be getting an A.