This isn’t at all what’s going on. Teaching assistants / teaching fellows are the ones issuing the grades for the most part, meaning other students. Okay, wha

This isn’t at all what’s going on. Teaching assistants / teaching fellows are the ones issuing the grades for the most part, meaning other students. Okay, what is a Math grad student or senior trying to tell a freshman when he gets a B? “Don’t major in math.” It’s that simple. So you sort yourself into somewhere where you thrive. Is that bad? No. And compounded with a smaller compulsory curriculum and more options for majors / concentrations generally, students sort themselves better. This also explains why universities with compulsory 1st year premed like Caltech - which by the way lets students cheat, if they really want to - have worse grades. It’s not really about standards per se, but at the highest levels everyone has enough cognitive gifts, even the sons and daughters of rich and powerful CCP members, to be good at something. I don’t know. I feel like these opinion authors aren’t really paying attention to the very most basic mechanics and dynamics of what is going on. It’s always about “DEI” as the antagonist for them.