There's a couple profs here too that don't give As except for like, legendary work (in other words, never).

That's why I think people don't necessarily care too much about transcripts? I don't really know. But yeah, the Ivies like to keep grades in the As and Bs, and that's obviously different from public universities... that and grading is so subjective within each school, so yeah, I agree.

I actually don't like grading based on effort unless there are results, even if those results are sort of "different" or whatev. I mean, if the person does average work, then they should be graded averagely, I think. But at Columbia, average = B. So it's more like what they should just do is eliminate Ds and Fs, since they don't use them and have to curve to keep grades out of their range.