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...report revealed that in 2001, 91 percent of Harvard students graduated with honors??as opposed to 44 percent at Princeton and 51 percent at Yale...
...report says that based on past data only about 3 percent of the graduating class would receive this final category of honors??thus making the total numbers of students receiving honors about 53 percent in a given year, according to data from recent classes...
...ensure the integrity of honors??the question that has occupied the Faculty all year—is still being debated...
Pedersen said yesterday the issue is unlikely to go before the Faculty again this year since it makes sense to postpone a further discussion of honors??particularly related to raising the GPA standard—until a Faculty discussion of grade inflation that will likely take place...
...need to grapple with. Our grades aren’t inflated; they’re realistic. Are there grade discrepancies between Harvard departments and classes that should be fixed? Yes. Is it odd that 90 percent of Harvard students graduate with honors? Yes, maybe giving automatic “honors?? status to all thesis writers obscures the playing field. But does any of this constitute mass grade inflation that is deserving of a mini-media circus? Definitely...