Isaac R. Mansell ’26, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Statistics concentrator in Kirkland House. Imagine opening Canvas to lengthy and detailed feedback that begins, “An egregious misreading of the ...

The dean of Harvard's undergraduate college says that the most common grade awarded at the school is a straight A, a point of non-pride that has sparked the cushiest online nerd fight in history, with ...

Harvard College has a grade inflation problem. But beneath it lies a deeper scandal: the faculty who have allowed, and even encouraged, the decay. The Atlantic recently reported that the average GPA ...

Harvard students pushed back forcefully against a new University report condemning grade inflation, arguing that it misrepresented their academic experience and would add pressure to an already ...

Harvard University's Dean of Undergradu-ate Education Susan Pedersen announced Oct. 16 that she will request all academic departments to assess their grading policies and practices and to submit their ...

"My kid's getting As at Harvard" isn't much of a flex anymore, thanks to a report from the erstwhile Ivy League institution admitting that roughly 60 percent of grades given to undergraduates were As, ...

More than half of the grades handed out at Harvard College are A’s, an increase from decades past even as school officials have sounded the alarm for years about rampant grade inflation. About 60% of ...

Back in the 1980s and 1990s, and likely before that, the University of Southern California (USC) had the reputation of a “safety school.” The biggest challenge to what some referred to as the ...

A few weeks ago, a student was quoted in the Harvard Crimson calling a report on grade inflation “soul-crushing.” In the article, students — mostly freshmen — are daunted by the implications of a more ...

Students are seen on campus at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, California, on April 16, 2024. The University of Southern California (USC) on April 17, 2024 has canceled its ...

More than half of the grades handed out at Harvard College are A’s, an increase from decades past even as school officials have sounded the alarm for years about rampant grade inflation. About 60% of ...

“My kid’s getting A’s at Harvard” isn’t much of a flex anymore, thanks to a report from the erstwhile Ivy League institution admitting that roughly 60% of grades given to undergraduates were A’s, up ...