Success is not granted by just hoping for it. To achieve true success, you need the strength of mind and body to compete and work hard to reach your entire potential. Brent Staples argues “Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A’s,” in the past few years their has been a high increase to colleges becoming lenient in regard to their grade policies. This softhearted act has led to an rise in the quantity of A’s that are dispersed each semester. Professors who do not give out high grade could potentially affect his/her’s salary from receiving disapproving student evaluations, “The most vulnerable teachers are the part-timers who have no job security and who now teach more than half of all college course.” Students are then standardized to the