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Grading is a perennial topic for the University.
Most recently, Harvard faculty and adminstrators have internally expressed concerns about Harvard’s grading standards for at least a decade.
However, it was not until a report hit the Boston Globe in November that called Harvard’s grading practices “the laughing stock of the Ivy League” that the world began to question the integrity of a Harvard degree.
While many proposals circulated this year on how to best combat grade inflation, the Faculty unanimously voted to cap honors and to switch to the more common 4.0 grading scale.
Harvard currently has a 15.0 grading scale with a gap between a B-plus and an A-minus that several professors have argued causes professors to award more A-range grades.