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While grade distributions would vary among classes, the proposal calls for departments to conform to the grading guidelines and for departmental grade data to be made public. The new policy would also provide “clear guidelines...about the meaning of letter grades.”
But in a cover memo accompanying the proposal, Malkiel wrote that department chairs had asked her to take the lead in setting an ambitious universitywide grading policy.
Instituting A-pluses and A-plus-pluses into the grading scale could be one way of ameliorating the problems caused by grade inflation at the College, University President Lawrence H. Summers told a group of about 60 students, tutors and House Masters at a study break in the Adams House...
In response to Ecks anecdote, Summers said that he also wanted to examine inequity in the grading system across departments.
Students voiced concerns that low grades in the sciences were keeping their peers out of medical school, but Summers said that most people regard Harvard grades in their context, adding that he was hesitant to instrumentalize our grading system to push more kids into medical school.