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But unlike the more conventional 4.0-point system employed at most colleges, Harvard's 15-point system creates an additional, unnecessary focus one one's place in the grading hierarchy. Harvard's current grading system makes use of a point system. This scheme divides students into six categories, or "groups...
Under this grading system, there are two points of difference between two lettered grades in sequential order. An A- counts for 14 points, while a B+ counts for only 12. On the other hand, similarly lettered grades in sequential order have a standard difference of one point; a B carries...
The current grading system expects professors to evaluate students under this very system. If Harvard is to employ such an illogical policy, it should at least ensure that it is used consistently. But a significant number of professors in the sciences, social sciences and humanities told me that they were...
Thus, professors' different conceptions and applications of the current grading system make it even more likely that one's grades will depend on one's professor.
To mitigate student competitiveness, to improve the consistency of grade values and to make the grading system altogether more logical, Harvard should scrap the 15-point system and supplant it with the conventional 4.0 system.