<p>Give me the low down.</p>
<p>^ Gosh - I really hope there is grade INflation - my poor D is tired.</p>
<p>You know what it takes to get into Harvard - why would students who've never made a C in their lives suddenly start making them there?</p>
<p>Out of the last ~35,000 undergrads to attend Harvard, exactly two, a brother and sister, graduated with a 4.0. </p>
<p>A 3.9 will put you in the top 5% of the graduating class.</p>
<p>If you were accepted, then you'll probably find it easy to pass if passing is all you want to do, but very difficult indeed to get straight A's.</p>
<p>Grade inflation at Harvard? Nonsense.</p>
<p>Relatively easy to get B's but not A's particularly if you're premed. The GPA trends are from 7 years ago and I'd be surprised to see as much inflation over the past several years as in earlier years.</p>
<p>The thing about grade inflation is this:</p>
<p>this year, only 7% of applicants. So what is wrong with 90% of these 7% of students graduating with honors?</p>
<p>Haha, good point. Unfortunately, it won't be close to that number, it's around 50-60% now (a GPA of 3.3ish is good enough for Cum Laude). </p>
<p>For more information on Grade Inflation at Harvard you can search through some of the older posts, cuz this discussion has been rehashed a lot. Basically, there is some grade inflation in upper level humanities courses (averages of B+, etc) but sciences are decidedly un-inflated (most are curved to a B/B-) and overall, it's pretty hard to consistently get A's here (doable, but you'll have to work, and accept that you won't be able to do it in every class).</p>
<p>To clarify, i got into Harvard and will probably attend there, so i'm very much pro-grade inflation. I just want to know what's going down.</p>
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<p>I don't really understand that philosophy. In cases where grade inflation is an issue those whose opinion about those grades actually matters (e.g. grad school admissions boards, top companies that review lots of applicants) know all about it too and take it into consideration so the effect generally cancels itself out.</p>