Harvard Students Upset by School’s Grade Inflation Report
“I skipped classes on Monday, and I was just sobbing in bed because I felt like I try so hard in my classes, and my grades aren’t even the best.”
These students don’t want to hear that the school’s grading system has become too lenient.
The Harvard Crimson reports:
‘Soul-Crushing’: Students Slam Harvard’s Grade Inflation Report
Harvard students pushed back forcefully against a new University report condemning grade inflation, arguing that it misrepresented their academic experience and would add pressure to an already demanding campus environment.
The 25-page report, released Monday by the Office of Undergraduate Education, suggested that Harvard’s grading system had become so lenient that it no longer meaningfully distinguished between students. It warned that current practices were “failing to perform the key functions of grading” and were “damaging the academic culture of the College.”
But in interviews with The Crimson, more than 20 students said the report missed the complexity of academic life at Harvard. Many objected to its suggestion that students were not spending enough time on coursework and warned that stricter grading could heighten stress without improving learning.
Sophie Chumburidze ’29 said the report felt dismissive of students’ hard work and academic struggles.
“The whole entire day, I was crying,” she said. “I skipped classes on Monday, and I was just sobbing in bed because I felt like I try so hard in my classes, and my grades aren’t even the best.”
“It just felt soul-crushing,” she added.
The report called on Harvard affiliates to work with officials to “re-center academics” and devote time towards tougher and more strictly graded courses. But many students said the push felt misguided, warning that tougher grading, without attendant changes in academic quality, would shift their focus from learning to chasing grades.
Kayta A. Aronson ’29 said stricter standards could take a serious toll on students’ mental health.
“It makes me rethink my decision to come to the school,” she said. “I killed myself all throughout high school to try and get into this school. I was looking forward to being fulfilled by my studies now, rather than being killed by them.”
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Maybe these students just aren’t cut out for Harvard…or college, or that matter.
“I felt”
The leftist idiot calling card.
Boo Hoo,
What is this about? The STEM class that is graded on curve, because the highest grade was 65?
so harvy trying to show that they are against dei>>>blm>>rubber stamping their degrees
ahahaahahhaaaaa
She’d probably have more time for her coursework if she didn’t spend all day sobbing in bed about hurtful words.
Did they even try to find a student who was glad that they would finally get credit for working harder than the other students? Did it even occur to them that merit has merit?
Snowflakes and idiots.
Sounds to me like a bunch of DEI admittees moaning about how swamped they would be if Harvard’s academic life were anything like it was 50 years ago. Maybe you just shouldn’t be there in the first place, Tiffany.
Does make you wonder how many diversity boxes they checked when they applied, doesn’t it?
Poor snowflakes.
As Paul McCartney sang in “Little Lamb, Dragonfly,” “Sometimes, life is hard. And this is only one of them.”
My wife’s, cousin’s son graduated from Harvard six months ago. He made out like all the students made A’s & B’s. He was picked up by Lincoln Financial as a statistician.
FYI: Student athletes at Harvard do not get scholarships, even if they compete at the Olympics.
Harvard is a mess but they do have some good programs in quantitative analysis.
Most of our higher institutions of indoctrination should be put out of their and our misery.
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