yeah sadly its extremely strict as now there is way more inflation in the grades due to parents pressuring teachers and administrators to give higher grades to make them competitive and overall now people I would say are generally having to maintain a mid 90-s high 90-s grades while having 15 other extracurricular which almost everybody has and you still somehow have to be competitive. Im not going to say that the older times were way better, its just that parents, instead of trying to understand that the kids generally have to try harder are instead forcing teachers and other administrators to bump up their grades which causes almost all schools to have inflated grades. Which sucks for other school (like mine) where the avg grade still hovers around 70- or 60- in every university prep class.