Princeton Undergrad Tries To Be More Like Southwestern School Of Law

From CNN:

Faculty members and school officials are reviewing proposed changes to the university's grading system that would limit the number of A's that professors could award. The goal of the proposal made public this week is to lower the number of A's from the current 46 percent to 35 percent for undergraduate courses.

In her memo, Malkiel said that 65 percent of the graduating seniors in Princeton's class of 2002 had grade-point averages of B-plus or better, and fewer than 5 percent fell below B-minus. A student with a straight C average, she said, stood second to last. [my italics]

I know, it's undergrad but any mention of GPAs always gets me to thinking about our school's 2.3 GPA.