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Others have proposed adding the median grade in each course to Harvard’s transcript, to be displayed next to each student’s actual grade in that class, as Dartmouth College does. But this step would be unnecessary if grades accurately reflected students’ mastery of course material and intellectual ability in the first place. If a C meant that you turned in acceptable but unexceptional work in a class, and an A meant that you excelled and drew your own innovative, original conclusions or demonstrated uncommon mastery of the application of the themes presented...
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...deadlines passed late last week, Pearl's family and friends clung to the hope that his cool head, innate charm and intelligence would protect him from further harm. "Danny's incredibly resourceful," said Nick Noyes, a friend of Pearl's from his days at the Massachusetts paper North Adams Transcript. "If anyone can get himself out of a mess like this, he can." But Pearl had been caught up in a new wave of anti-American terror, one that doesn't seem to follow any script. His friends and colleagues could do little more than wait...
Second, a compressed grade scale makes it harder for outsiders such as graduate schools or business recruiters to understand what Harvard’s grades mean. While an inflated A might look good on a transcript, it diminishes the accomplishments of students who actually master the material and produce innovative, original work. This damages the credibility of Harvard’s grades...
...exam in an English class, the value would likely hover around one—far too small to make meaningful comparisons. It has become all too common for the goof-off and the hard-working genius to be separated by a single plus or minus on their transcript. When almost half of grades given out at the College are A or A-minus, distinguishing oneself in the classroom is not a matter of being better than everyone else, but of being perfect...