Please don't flame me...3 "A" papers...Have Universities gone to shit?!

[JanMichael]

Seriously! I'm taking a graduate course and have submitted what I consider massively mediocre work. Ok, that's not entirely true, the papers have been excellent content wise. I know the subject well.

But the writing has sucked!

The first paper was "ok" and got an "A". The second paper has been the best, an "A". The last paper was total garbage. I wrote it fast, hadn't read the assigned readings and the grammer went to the wolves, "A".

This is a top-notch university too.

Have expectations of the students fallen so far or have financial pressures made them all desperate?

What's the deal?

EDIT: I should state that this is not an original idea of mine. I've heard it from quite a few returning students...

2nd EDIT: I've also been told that several of the formerly elite schools in my neck of the woods are really no better that heavily hyped diploma mills. How sad...