<p>I think it depends on your department and your professors. There is (or at least, was) significant grade deflation.</p>
<p>I got some A’s, but I got more A’s at Brown, MIT, Tufts, and USC than I ever got at W&M. What does that say? I don’t know.</p>
<p>Is it a self-fulfilling prophecy kind of thing? You think that no one gets A’s and you just accept B’s? I don’t know.</p>
<p>I will say that I often felt that if I didn’t agree with a professor, my grade suffered. I wasn’t alone in this. I do think that a lot of the “old white men” have retired, though, and that is a very good thing.</p>