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You can’t be serious. A diligent, hard-working, enthusiastic student requires others to be given low marks or it’s not fair? There are a lot of things in life that aren’t fair, and this has to be one of the least significant. Anyone who works hard and does well at Brown and wants to parlay that into future academic or professional endeavors is probably going to be just fine. If, however, he must see others fail and fall to the wayside in order to feel like he’s accomplished something and feel like everything is fair, he’s going to have a long, hard road of ego-crushing lessons in front of him. If anything, Brown is pushing the envelope in the right direction on this one.</p>
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<p>So, at Brown the effective median GPA is an A and at Swarthmore it’s a B+. You have stated that over 50% of grades given out at Brown are As, but your statement here implies that 50% of grades given out at Swarthmore are either an A, A-, or B+. This doesn’t seem like such a big deal that you should be getting all worked up about it.</p>