Too Late. Harvard has been a joke for years. Arrogant Snobs.
I graduated from a MAC school in the 70’s with a 3.2 GPA and worked my az off to get that.
Back then a B or better overall GPA for a BS degree was something of which to be genuinely proud.
Harvard = $53 billion tax free endowment. They should be force to pay all the tuition and fees of Harvard students
If the average is not 2.0, a C, then it is a joke (or a farce).
I’d like to see admissions broken down by demographic over the years and how the trends look across the demographics.
I’m pretty sure I know what I’d find.
I went to U of of Chicago in the early ‘80s, and grade inflation was already a thing EXCEPT at U of C. That wound up hurting grads whose grades would have been better at Dartmouth or Brown.
A “woke” university is a “joke” university. The same applies to el/hi “woke” schools.
They are merely aping and justifying America's new values. Albeit they continue to do it in an advanced, post-modern intellectual and elitist way. They will stay on top in our strange new world.
Don’t want to damage the students self esteem.
Risk-taking at one time was taking a course pass/fail.
And in most colleges the pass did not count as part of your GPA only the total credits counted to graduation.
Hahhvahhd is CIA Central.
Harvard now has the mentality of the ‘checked box.’ On every form there are boxes to be checked, and one cannot proceed to the next page without completing the check marks.
I remember a caller on a radio program. He was a math/computer major, and he was taking everything online. He was also in South Korea. The first vaccines were available, and Harvard was insisting that all students have proof of vaccination (the Registrar had to check the box). The student tried and tried to explain he was thousands of miles away, and had no intention of leaving South Korea. All classes were online. The Registrar refused to proceed. The Proof-of-Vaccination box had to be checked, or his registration would not be accepted and processed. I suppose the one good thing is the student chose a different university.
It has been for decades now.
Turning? Hell, it is already.
In our high school in the 60s (yes I’m old), the grade scale was:
95-100 - A
88-94 - B
80-87 - C
70-79 - D
Below 70 = F
The grading scale wasn’t really fair as far as college admissions, you could have a 92 average and a ‘B’ GPA or an 86 average and a ‘C’ GPA. There was no grade ‘inflation’, it was more like grade ‘deflation’. However, in our scruffy, blue collar high school, probably 80% never attended college, and the administration viewed their job as baby sitting. If you did make it to college, it was much easier to maintain an ‘A’ or ‘B’ average.
Turning into?
Became.
I am an MIT undergraduate alum and a Harvard PhD alum.
Harvard unfortunately became a BIG joke when it picked Claudine Gay as its next president. A social science propagandist and a sexual-harassment activist—NOT a scholar!!!! The sister of Illinois’ corrupt governor led the committee that picked her!
MIT to this day has NO grade inflation!!
https://alum.mit.edu/slice/grade-deflation-problem
And they picked Sally A. Kornbluth, a cell biologist, as their next president!
https://news.mit.edu/2022/sally-kornbluth-named-MIT-president-1020
Here’s hoping that Dr. Kornbluth does better than the current president, and that Ms. Gay has a VERY short tenure, with her scandals catching up with her!!!!
William F Buckley. Jr. on Harvard.
Note the black and white.
That was many, many moons ago. :-)
My college graded on a curve. Sounds good, but since everyone had to be really smart just to get in, the competition was fierce. Lots of people had to get Ds and Fs that were real smart. The bottom were culled each year. Only 50% of the entering class graduated. And two to three normal courses were crammed into one. You definitely learned a lot.