It was hard. I went to school in Minneapolis. They don't fool around there and pushed you as hard as they could. You were expected to apply at Stanford, Cal Poly, Harvey Mudd, Rensselaer, etc. I went to the University of Minnesota and the teachers didn't feel that was good enough. They felt the slackers went to the Big Ten Schools. A = Average, B = Below Average, C = Can't have dinner, D = Don't Come Home, F = Find a new family.