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My point was that Harvard *doesn’t *have admission standards based on GPA and SAT scores. For Harvard, and several other top schools, excellent grades and scores are simply a minimum requirement for acceptance, and most students have shown a record of achievement that shows that they are highly accomplished, competitive individuals. Sure, some of them will not live up to that in college, but the majority of them will. These aren’t just high school A students–these are the very top students from their high schools.</p>
<p>Personally, I think rationing As and insisting on a predetermined bell curve is absurd and unfair. It makes grades into a competition rather than a measurement of mastery of the material.</p>