I don't like these comparisons of statistics to justify that academic honors have lost their luster. The students who go to these schools tend to be overachiev

I don't like these comparisons of statistics to justify that academic honors have lost their luster. The students who go to these schools tend to be overachievers. Achieve honors at all costs kind of mentality. So just because too many students are actually achieving, do you try to bring them down? Or make coursework unreasonably hard? I once talked to a professor from my university long after graduation, and I told him that I as I saw the students become better at the coursework (I was helping them so) the exams became harder and harder, to the point where the only way you could truly get the questions right and on time is by having a year of so experience doing those problems. He responded with the bell curve. That a few students should get A's, some should get B's, and majority should get C's. Seriously? There are careers at stake here!