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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Students at Harvard are no smarter than they were in the 90's, and back then the average GPA was below 3.5.

Standards have gotten softer. There should be corrective measures to fix this issue. However, I do fear that lowering GPAs will hurt Harvard students seeking medical and law school admissions. [/quote]
I don't think standards are softer at all, just different. This isn't the UK where A means you have changed the field permanently, and so the grade "A" basically doesn't exist. I also don't get everyone's obsession with trying to label the average Harvard student "average."

What is true is that professors need administrative cushion to fail students, because early career professors get decimated in evaluations for doing so. What also is true is industry needs to buckle up to take in students who are very smart but averaging a 3.5 at Harvard, instead of the 3.7-3.8 minimum expectations these days. Will this fix Harvard's problem? No. It'll probably be disastrous for a percentage of students' outcomes.[/quote]

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