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Grade inflation is a horrible problem and the big schools are the biggest offenders. Schools like Harvard hand out A's like they are candy. Because of this all the other schools have to do the same otherwise it looks like their students aren't as good as other schools.
For instance here is something that pisses me off. I'm working on my phd and in my program anything lower than a B is considered failing and all core classes must be passed with a B+ or higher.
Now my advisor argued that this is because in graduate school everyone is a lot smarter and need to be held to a higher standard. But if everyone has the same grade you do you distinguish between the good students and the average students?
For instance on the GRE analytical writing section it is scored out of 6 points with .5 increments. Seriously can you tell anything about a group of applicants with that scale? all your applicatants are going to probably be a 5.5 or a 6...
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