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Comment by gnicholas

> It's an excellent signal for some critical amount of intelligence, conscientiousness, and conformity, where each one can be traded off for some of the others - but only up to a point.

No amount of conformity and intelligence can explain 80% A's if there is a curve that mandates otherwise. This grading distribution can only occur if the faculty permit it to, both at an individual level and at a policy level.

parent gnicholas 3 years ago

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