for sure
the whole system is dependent on bloating enrollment in order to keep federal and state money coming in
Until last year, in GA, if you had a 3.0, your tuition was basically free at state schools. So the schools started making it super easy to get a 3.0 in order to keep enrollment high
as an aside, I read an article about how law schools purposely spend excess money on buildings in order to increase their "money spent per student" statistic that contributes to their tier ranking... so they are literally trying to out-spend each other in order to keep their rankings high.