At Harvard, an A means "Average"

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Faced with a study by the Boston Globe that found 91% of seniors at Harvard graduated with some kind of honor, and half of undergraduate grades were A or A-, Harvard is trying to figure out how to restore B as the average grade.

One proposal: make a B+ closer to A-, so professors are more likely to give Bs. Uh, guys, are we not understanding the point of this discussion?

We always joked about grade inflation at "that other school" when I was in MIT, but we never imagined anything like this...

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