Blizzard employees work at Princetown University

[Chaerophon]

Unless they are an absolute genius, I don't see any way to achieve a perfect 4.0 in a stringent, competitive humanities field. There is just too damn much difference in the subjective marking criteria of different profs. What is an 'A' for one will be an 'A-' for another, and yet, the essay that the second prof would have assigned an 'A' would be assigned a 'B+' in the first course. I know that Canadian GPA's receiving full-ride philosophy scholarships to graduate school at Oxford / London School of Economics sit around 3.9, or even slightly below that level. I tend to believe that I am capable of producing 'A' level work in any course that I take. I'm also a workoholic. However, there's really nothing that I can do to avoid the occasional 'A-'. Every professor has a different idea about what constitutes a flat A, and it's hard to convince them otherwise once they've made up their mind. All that it takes is a slight misinterpretation on their part or even a difference of opinion, and an A can easily be downgraded. Accounting for such occasional subjective discrepancies has been, in my experience, all but impossible. Those who are capable of graduating with a perfect 4.0 in philosophy/political science/history, etc. must have, to my mind, some serious talent or insight, on top of an ample work ethic. I've yet to come across anyone that is managing to do it at my school. I know of a couple of people who are carrying 3.9's, but none with 4.0's. Of course, I can imagine it being a little bit easier in a less subjective field....