Harvard is in the hot seat. Apparently they’re giving out too many As.

[Anonymous]

This is precisely what some of us here have been arguing—the ivies and other private schools are coddling their students too much. I blame US News for this. They put way too much emphasis on four-year graduation rate.

https://fortune.com/2025/10/27/harvard-grade-inflation-students-ivy-league-education/

[Anonymous]

I don’t see anything about coddling.

Why are people surprised that a school with a 3% acceptance rate with the expectation that a significant chunk of their students have national or international recognition in something along with being academic superstars are doing well in school? Admissions 3 decades ago was a joke compared to now, and I’d argue the high failure rates were because the students truly were incompetent and faced less pressure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is precisely what some of us here have been arguing—the ivies and other private schools are coddling their students too much. I blame US News for this. They put way too much emphasis on four-year graduation rate.

https://fortune.com/2025/10/27/harvard-grade-inflation-students-ivy-league-education/

You again. Bashing Harvard. Give it a break will you?

[Anonymous]

So it’s coddling when colleges give out lots of As, but not when high schools do it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So it’s coddling when colleges give out lots of As, but not when high schools do it?

But is Harvard public high school 2.0? Should it be?

[Anonymous]

Duplicate of https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1298771.page

[jsteele]

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1298771.page