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...faculty over the last thirty years have begun to realize that the transcript matters," Rudenstine said, explaining that an increased number of graduate schools led professors to give better grades so that Harvard students would not be at a disadvantage...
...Often, your degree as an undergraduate is not your last degree, so you're worried about your transcript," he added...
...committee is still not sold. Though Susan intends to study literature, dean of admissions Diane Anci is worried because her transcript is "thin" in science credits and notes that she has progressed in math no further than pre-calculus. "Let's have a dramatic reading from her essay," says Anci. Susan's meditation on the ferryboats she rides across Puget Sound each morning to her Seattle school elicits approving chuckles from the jury. Anci is convinced. Moments later, the committee votes to rate Susan a 3 on a descending scale of 1 to 9 - high enough to earn...
...what students have learned. The idea of self-esteem is as rampant in higher education, and at Harvard, the supposed pinnacle of American education, as in primary and secondary education. Did not the Crimson editorial on my two-grade experiment worry that the real grade (as opposed to the transcript grade) would be "burned" into students' egos? In the universities, self-esteem often goes by the name of "multiculturalism" or of "sensitivity," meaning that, despite all the talk about diversity and liberty, you had better watch what...
...todays climate, prospective employers can respect your Harvard diploma, cast away your inflated transcript and move on to others means of evaluation. If grade inflation really made of mockery of Harvard diplomas, the employers would not come at all. No matter how one feels about grade inflation, care should be taken to reasonably frame the debate, and not mire an important discussion about our respectable pillar of higher education with rhetorical over-enthusiasm...