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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just read the report. The numbers are astonishing:

-  the median GPA went from 3.29 in 1985 to 3.49 in 2005 to 3.83 in 2025! 
- the percentage of A grades went from 25 in 2005 to over 60 percent in 2025.

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Well in the 80s , 30 percent of applicants were given admissions offers: now it’s like 3 percent.   The number of AP courses has also gone up.

My freshman college student is definitely way more prepared entering college than I was (I didn’t go to Harvard )- they are much more prepared and should be getting more As than I did

Whoever thinks high school in the 80s and 90s was better preparing kids for college is crazy

[/quote] Where did you get the Harvard admissions number from the 80s?? It's completely inaccurate and overinflated. It was more in the teens. Students are definitely less prepared for college and have many, many  more distractions. [/quote]

Yes.  Your number is off. My graduation year of high school 1990 acceptance rate at Harvard was 11%.  Not 30%.  30% were some of the other ivies. [/quote]

Yep. When I applied in 1987, acceptance rate was 10%. [/quote]

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