In the eternal struggle against grade inflation, Princeton drew its line in the sand long ago, executing a series of aggressive grading policies designed to curb the rising number of A’s on campus.

This, of course, stands in direct opposition to other Ivies, like Brown University, where more than half of the grades issued are A’s solely because administrators feel students are entitled to them for simply being a member of the Ivy League.

For a long time, the fear has been that grade deflation in the Ivy League would diminish a student’s perceived value in the eyes of a prospective graduate school, especially when compared against one from a rival school. However, according to Princeton, that’s simply not the case.

The Daily Princetonian reports:

There is no evidence that grade deflation has harmed students’ employment or graduate school opportunities, Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel said at Sunday night’s USG Senate meeting, at which she agreed to appear at the USG’s request.

“All the data we have for the last period of time since the grading policy went into effect tell us that there are no negative, worrying results in terms of fortunes of Princeton students in the post-graduate world in which people wish to pursue opportunities,” she said.

She noted, “medical school [acceptance] rates went up slightly” since the policy was implemented. Likewise, this year the University had three Rhodes scholarship winners, and Michael Solis ’07 won one of the 12 George J. Mitchell scholarships, she added.

In other words, grades don’t matter, as long as you attend one of the most prestigious universities in the world.

But, before you celebrate by failing your forthcoming finals, remember this: there will be a lot of Princetonians applying to grad schools this winter that missed this memo.