<p>Other schools grade hard too- JHU, Wake Forest, Cornell, Swarthmore, the top publics. Princeton is toughening up this year, too. Everybody at Chicago is not ready to get those A’s. Some are goofing off, especially first year, some are not well prepared. If you focus, are prepared, and want A’s, you will get them. Maybe not every time, but, enough. It isn’t as if A’s are twice as hard to get as at most top schools.</p>