<p>That’s an excellent question and one that gets a fair degree of thread time. For example, according to the grade inflation adjustment index that someone claims was smuggled out of the Boalt (UC-Berkeley) Law School admissions office, the only two elite colleges harder to get an A than Wesleyan were Williams and Swarthmore:
<a href=“http://web.archive.org/web/20000829094953/http://www.pcmagic.net/abe/gradeadj.htm[/url]”>http://web.archive.org/web/20000829094953/http://www.pcmagic.net/abe/gradeadj.htm</a></p>
<p>OTOH, there are people on this very forum who claim to take “~6 to 7 courses a semester and still have a tremendous amount of idle time”: <a href=“apathy towards academics? - Wesleyan University - College Confidential Forums”>apathy towards academics? - Wesleyan University - College Confidential Forums;
<p>Who ya gonna believe?</p>