Originally Posted by Guest

That's because, at elite universities, it's virtually impossible to fail: "...But in the case of this particular professor everybody got an A. As a test, I surreptitiously enrolled a fictitious student into the roster of his next class. This "nobody" never came to class, never wrote a term paper and never took an exam. At the end of the semester the mysterious student received an A..."

Read the whole thing: Opinion: Can Harvard stop awarding so many As? - CNN.com