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...Hair Don’t worry; we all know you’re an athlete. Your why-yes-I-did-just-pull-off-my-helmet hair leaves no room for doubt. You’re too busy for anything but pregaming and practice, and your style—and grades??€”show it. But while you might think you look like you just don’t care, we’ve all caught you checking yourself out in the Science Center mirrors. The Angry Feminist You’re smart and friendly—at least until someone...
...scared of C’s and D’s, which is really silly considering they are just letters and I’m bigger than them and can almost certainly bench-press more than they do. I do all the things required to get good grades??€“I go to class, do my homework, steal other people’s notes, etc.—but I still don’t get the straight A’s that Harvard students are known for. Wait—you’re telling me that you don?...
...seemed destined for a career in journalism. Elected a news editor for The Crimson his freshman year, Halberstam rose through the ranks to garner the position of managing editor his junior year. It was his tireless devotion to the paper—sometimes even at the expense of his grades??€”and his endless enthusiasm that set him apart to those who knew...
...both, for there will be enough students who do both well and poorly that the differences in students’ raw accomplishment will be significant enough to communicate relative performance as well. Princeton’s decision to cap A-range grades at 35 percent in order to restore grades??€™ role as a communicator of relative performance jars with students expectations precisely because students persist in viewing grades as a measure of raw accomplishment. Harvard’s decision to limit the percentage of students awarded Latin honors received a similar response because most Harvard students feel that...
During an Adams House study break last fall, Summers jokingly suggested instituting A-pluses and A-plus-pluses as a way to ameliorate a system where two grades??€”‘A’ and ‘A-minus’—measure the top half of students and seven grades measure the bottom half...