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...National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS), a pre-collegiate organization that keeps tabs on issues that affect top-tier schools to which many prep schools send their students, grade inflation at the university level is not a primary concern...
Franklin is a Los Angeles native, hailing from the part of the city most people know as South Central. When he was in sixth grade, he became a “better chance” scholar, participating in a national program that prepares minority students for admissions to elite schools. He attended the Brentwood School, a private school on Sunset Boulevard, where he was elected head prefect—student body president. He was also a Ron Brown scholar, a Riordan scholar, and first violin in the Pasadena Youth Orchestra...
Seventy-five candidates, who constitute nearly five percent of the graduating class, earned summa cum laude diplomas, the highest degree awarded by the College, in their fields of concentration. Sixty-two candidates will receive magna cum laude with highest honors, based on their entire coursework and overall grade point average (GPA), and 184 will be given magna cum laude in their fields of concentration. Thirty-nine will be awarded cum laude in general studies, while 476 will receive cum laude in their fields of concentration...
Just two days ago, the Office of the Registrar of the Faculty of Arts and Science (FAS), to combat allegations of grade inflation at Harvard, unveiled a new set of standards that will be used to award honors degrees to graduating seniors, beginning with the Class...
...Grade inflation at Harvard has come under scrutiny since 2001, when the Boston Globe reported that over 90 percent of Harvard students graduated with honors, far more than any other Ivy League school...