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...less blasé about the value of a solid Harvard (or Princeton or Yale) education. Fertility Alternatives Incorporated, based in Murrieta, Calif., designates Exceptional Donors as attractive women under 30 who either have a college degree or are currently attending college. They must have at least a 3.5 GPA and SAT scores over 1400. These women are able to name their own fee—from $5,000 to $15,000. The company even maintains a waiting list for Ivy League egg donations for parents who “as a general rule believe that intelligence is genetic...
...mind with both knowledge and approaches to understanding. If you are like me, it’s a glorified way to delay inevitable unemployment. The glory of Pass/Fail is that it appeals to all three groups. The future I-bankers can use it to maintain an artificially high GPA. The few who learn for learning’s sake can do so without letting things like “competition” and “judgment” taint the purity of knowledge. For the rest of us who could largely give a rat’s ass about...
...lower, then the same principle should be applied to atheletes,” sophomore football player Jon Berrier said. “If Harvard felt that the creation of an award wining jazz ansemble was a priority, then it would sacrifice a few points on SATs or GPA to let them in. Without recruits you can’t field a competitive team...
Although a successful approach to grade inflation will certainly result in a reduction in the average student GPA, that reduction must not itself be the goal. Instead, Harvard should aim to reform its grading policies so that grades better serve their original intent; a shift in the overall grade distribution will come as a corollary of that process...
...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 Mathematics and Mathematical Logic Warren D. Goldfarb ’69 and numerous other faculty and administrators have...