> the average grade at Harvard has been an A- for some years now. So grades from Harvard are basically meaningless.
I won't deny grade inflation, but Harvard allows students to drop classes very late in the semester. For "hard" classes, it wasn't uncommon for less than 25% of the students present in the second week of class to still be around to take the final. I never saw anything like that at the public university I went to as an undergrad.
Some amount of the high average grade is because the students not doing so well in the course drop with little to no penalty.
I won't deny grade inflation, but Harvard allows students to drop classes very late in the semester. For "hard" classes, it wasn't uncommon for less than 25% of the students present in the second week of class to still be around to take the final. I never saw anything like that at the public university I went to as an undergrad.
Some amount of the high average grade is because the students not doing so well in the course drop with little to no penalty.