Harvard College to Limit A Grades Amid Grade Inflation Concerns
Harvard College has announced a new policy to limit the number of A grades students can receive. This move is part of a wider trend among selective colleges to address and combat grade inflation.
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Harvard Caps A’s as Selective Colleges Attack Grade Inflation
Faculty members overwhelmingly approved a limit on the number of top grades they can give to about a fifth of their undergraduate classes.
By Mark Arsenault
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Mandatory cap on top grades at one of America’s most prestigious colleges will go into effect in the fall of 2027 Harvard faculty has voted to impose a roughly 20% cap on A grades in an effort to curb decades of grade inflation that, the faculty argues, degrades the value of top-tier academic achievement at the college. The mandatory cap on top grades at one of America’s most prestigious colleges will go into effect in the fall of 2027. Under an agreed “20 plus four” formula, the number of A ...
By Edward Helmore
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“It would be flippant to say that [Harvard] grades are useless,” a law school dean told the Washington Post, “But they’re almost useless.”
By Isabel Keane
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