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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With the exception of a few elite schools like Princeton and MIT that still give actual grades it is the only place where students compete.

Everybody gets As and A-s, so the average GPA for the school is a 3.8 and it becomes the future employers job to sort out the wheat from the chaff.  [/quote]

Genuine question: Elite schools take students with excellent track records of doing well in school.  If “Everybody gets As and A-s” by meeting the — presumably high — standards set by the professors, why is that an issue for you?  Does someone have to fail for you to value the relative “success”?

At least at the elite school that I attended, I was able to take graduate level seminars — a potentially risky move, if my focus had been solely on my gpa.  Would you have been more impressed by better grades — say: a 3.9 — if I had decided instead to take easier courses, with easier course requirements, in an easier major?

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The standards aren't high. Grades have been inflated since the Vietnam War.

If a Harvard A is the same as a State College A, the Harvard education has no more educational value than State College. Harvard students, if they are extra talented, should be earning better than State College A. [/quote]

And you’re backing this up with actual data, right?

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A bit dated and the trend has only continued upward  https://www.gradeinflation.com/ [/quote]

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