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Jean K. Webb, director of admissions for Yale Law School, notes that law schools are provided with the last three years of grading data for many colleges—including Harvard—which allows them to account for changes in a particular school’s grading trends...
...today’s students are more proficient, they should be receiving higher grades, with or without a more lenient grading policy. More As would then reflect achievement, not inflation. But while many say that students’ abilities have increased, aptitude alone cannot account for the astonishing percentage of Harvard students that receive As and A-minuses today, nor for the full-point jump in average GPA over the last 15 years. “Only a very small part of this is an increase in academic talent of the students,” as Pearson Professor of Modern...
...quality of Harvard’s students has increased over the past hundred years, as Harvard has gone from a college for the wealthy New England elite to an international university drawing the best students from dozens of countries. But this alone cannot account for the drastic rise in grades. There has been only a marginal increase over the last 15 years in students’ SAT scores, for example, which cannot account for the fact that the mean Harvard grade point average rose an entire point over that period...
...which marks off important divisions of the Gaussian distribution. That distribution is better know as the bell shaped curve, and it has been used to rank you against your peers since you first learned to bubble in letters in fourth grade. Its single broad hump and leisurely asymptotic decline account for the gifted, the dull and the discontented masses in between...
Former House Committee Treasurer Natalie J. Szekeres ‘97 was eventually indicted of siphoning $7,550 of the funds to her personal account over a six-month period...