<p>Why would it be the case? Do the professors give a lot of curved grades? Or is it because almost ALL the Harvard students are extremely intelligent?
If anyone know the details/secrets, please reveal your ideas! Thanks!</p>
<p>(So, almost everyone knows that Harvard has grade infl.?)</p>
<p>I took a summer school course there and there we major grade inflation. Not everyone got A's but on the tests some people did very poorly. He knew they would do badly and planned on curving. If you managed to get at least on deviation up on everything you would get an A. On par was like a C+ or so. There is inflation but I don't know how bad it was. If he hadn't have curved I would have gotten an A anyways because that is just how my numbers worked out.</p>
<p>But what kind of class was it? </p>
<p>Curves in a physics class are expected and more acceptable than curves in a, say, history or English class.</p>
<p>Harvard has not really have grade inflation relative to most schools; rather, what it has had is HONORS inflation, with a very large fraction of graduates getting cum laude, magna and summa. This issue has now been addressed, and "quotas" established.</p>
<p>The best way of comparing grades is to look at the now-sadly-dated "Boalt Formula" where that law school normalized undergrad GPAs based on later performance and LSAT scores.</p>
<p>In molecular biology with graduate students taking the same course I am talking about the curve.</p>
<p>yea, but summer school courses are significantly easier, from what I've heard. I know a couple of H-students who have reserved their most difficult courses, like O-chem, for the summer because there will be significantly less competition for good grades, and they can spend more time on the course.</p>
<p>Edit: And Harvard does not have grade inflation, certainly not to the extent that people think. How many H undergrads have you personally heard of complain about it? There's no point debating it, however, because you have to actually go there to know that it doesn't exist. Just try telling the pack of pre-meds that there's grade inflation...</p>