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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This was common in many of my math, CSE and economics classes at Penn in the 90s.  Not sure what the big deal is?  The tests are really hard to differentiate amongst students.  A is exemplary, B is good/great, C is satisfactory, etc.  Plenty of B and C students that got their degrees and secured great first jobs.[b]  Employers manage expectations when they know the GPA is on a curve.  [/b]

"Objective problem-solving" can be made more rigorous, deeper dive, more nuanced, trickier complex questions.  The kids that met the bar, but weren't savants, collected their B or C and moved on with life.[/quote]
The recruiters of today just filter for school AND gpa. No one gives a shit about the nuance about Harvard's grading. they want the "best."[/quote]

That's not true for campus recruiters at top schools like Harvard.  They visit a similar set of 20+ schools year over year, and know grading is different at Cornell vs Brown, for example. [/quote]

Yes, but schools like harvard and yale want people to judge their graduates based on the reputations of harvard and yale rather than their performance at harvard and yale.[/quote]

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