Wow.
What a scam, if this is true.
Everyone’s exceptional at Harvard!
But do the hysterical careerist students who wind up with an A- threaten to sue the institution? I hope so!
A degree from Harvard ought to be printed on toilet paper. They are worthless barter, traded among influential liberals as passports to their place at the government trough and have nothing to do with genuine ability in the real world.
What was the last useful thing that a graduate of Harvard produced for this economy? Their cookie-cutter education does not prepare them to “think out of the box.”
Showing up for most classes is a solid C. Turning in most of your assigned work gives you a B+. And parroting back the progressive line of thought brings the A. < /sarc >
Rather than face unpleasant discoveries about the distribution of below-average grades, Harvard has essentially done away with grades by giving only good grades.
This is true of the entire education system today, as I need not mention to anyone here.
You’re the “best and brightest”... you have to be, because you’re attending Haaavaad. A- in the classroom, F- as far as accomplishments in the real world, but A+ in salary for “trying”.
and all of SCOTUS is from that creepy institution
This is true where I work too (in math/stats). The student evaluation form and the value it is given is one of the the worst culprits in my opinion. If you want a chance at tenure and want to please the dean and the chairman then you better be getting great evaluations. Good luck getting such evaluations if you make your class too challenging. You might get a few good ones but mostly you’ll be raked over the coals by students who otherwise expect to get at least a B+ without much effort. You should teach well and prepare but making your class easy is the main ingredient in getting good evaluations. This is true for online evaluations (i.e. ratemyprofessors) as well and though few will admit it most look and most care.
These days, getting a B is like getting an F.
Has anyone other than Ted Kennedy ever flunked out of Harvard?
I’ve heard about the richest man in Cambridge, Mass.—————— he’s the guy with the Crayola franchise.
All in the name of egalitarianism. If everyone gets an “A” or “A-” then we truly know how brilliant people like BHO and Moochelle are.
Mathematically, this is irrelevant if employers rely on class rank. Four years of college courses giving either an A or an A- will provide enough separate grades for enough separate courses that you can establish a class rank for the students that is almost the same as if the teachers gave grades on a 5 point scale.
Political correctness has rendered the Liberal Arts side of Harvard irrelevant
That’s good for prospective employers to know: “A-” is the new “C” for Harvard graduates.
Back when I was in Uni, I rented a room in a student boarding house, one of my flat mates was a Japanese grad student. Apparently the Harvard grading system is what Uni’s in Japan use... the students work so hard in the years before and during High School to get into University... that once there it’s a much more relaxed attitude.
It’s not as if the students at Harvard aren’t already highly intelligent... and I’ve heard the same stories about soft grading from all the ivy league schools.
Frankly I’m much more concerned about the fleecing of American students by various state Universities... some of them allow students with barely rudimentary skills entrance as long as they’re out of state students. This way they collect the rather steep out of state tuition, by way of the student loans that pay for it.