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<p>I would happily bet a couple of dollars that few high school students have ANY knowledge of the grading system at CMC, and for the very good reason that they have not attended the school, and that few people bother to discuss this on campus. And then there is hearsay: years ago, the common knowledge was that classes at Scripps or at Pitzer would be an "easy A’ until the reality turned out to be quite different for the students of the other 5Cs. How hard a class is and how easy the grading really is remains a very subjective matter. All of us have classes where the A is easy and other where getting above a C requires lots of work or some luck on testing day. What is easy for some and is really hard for others. I can guarantee you that there are teachers at CMC that would scare kids from Pomona to death, and, of course vice versa. </p>
<p>The bottom line? Common knowledge about colleges in the ranks of high schoolers is often akin to the one-eyed leading the blind. Caveat Emptor! </p>