Caps On A

             Competing for the highest grades, Princeton's students study vigorously to be one of the top 35% scholars to be able to obtain an A in their classes. According to the information that the Orange County Register provides its readers about Princeton's new regulation on the limited amount of A's allowed to be handed out, Ivy League schools have their undergraduates successfully pass their classes with a total percentage of about forty four percent to fifty five percent with A's. Grade-point averages have been rising since around the Vietnam period. Schools believe that they are hesitant to give their students lesser grades because they feel unwilling positioning their students at a drawback. Schools should put a halt to capping A's since it only lessens the probability of us, college students, to successfully make it through till graduation.
             Limiting the number of A's handed out in an undergraduate course limits the chances of undergraduate scholars that wish to extend their knowledge from acceptance into graduate schools. Some students who have worked hard for their grades now will not have the chance to make it into their school of their dreams. The university will not give the undergraduates the A's that they would need in order to be capable of making it into the graduate schools they apply themselves to in the future. The students will be unable to have an opportunity to live life while holding successful careers. Medical schools do not care where the applicants went for college. The graduate schools only look at the grades that the students receive in their classes; limiting the A's that they receive only allow applicants holding honors from other schools, which has no regulations on the amount of A's handed out, to have a greater chance to get into that medical school. The competition of applying to graduate school just makes it harder for studious scholars from Ivy League...

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