I have already mentioned that the financial stress on this group of college students is likely greater than in previous generations. Several have argued that the academic pressure to succeed is also greater. There has been massive grade inflation, especially at the high school level. That, combined with overprotective parenting, seems likely to have the result of creating in students the expectation that they will continue to get virtually all As. Yet doing so is difficult in college and the failure to meet expectations, and to struggle relative to peers is experienced by many students to be enormously stressful (link is external).