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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Amherst has a 7% acceptance rate. I think, like Harvard, it is full of grinders who put in the work for those As. Or, like PP said, know how to choose coursework that is most likely to lead to As. I had a friend like that at Harvard. Selected for Phi Beta Kappa, but never took a hard class during her time there. There are different kinds of intelligence.[/quote]
This just can’t be true, because the college has always been rigorous and filled with high potential students, but back in the day you wouldn’t see things like this: [quote]Barba proceeded to share the calls he received from the Office of Fellowships inquiring about how to interpret students’ good GPAs. “They say, ‘What percentile of the class are [they]?’ I say, ‘45th’ ... It does you no favors in the application process when we have to say things like that,” Barba said…
On the flip side, Barba pointed out that grade compression can also obscure the picture of which students are actually struggling. “We’re kind of losing some signal for some students who … do need some kind of intervention [but] may think they’re actually doing better than they really are,” Barba said.[/quote][/quote]

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