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sooo theres no possibility students are trying harder these days or are just plain better students? The acceptance rate at harvard in 1969 was around 20%, compa
by kart23 4y ago
sooo theres no possibility students are trying harder these days or are just plain better students? The acceptance rate at harvard in 1969 was around 20%, compared with 4.6% today. It kinda makes sense that if you're accepting people who are better students, they're gonna get higher GPAs.
- Mikeb85 4y agoI mean, that's the argument these schools make.
- SilverBirch 4y agoEven if it were true that everyone is smarter today, it’s not helpful. GPAs are used to compare students if similar cohorts, no one is seriously picking between a 21 year old and a 70 year old based on GPA. There’s no value in reflecting increased cohort ability. Theoretically Roughly you just want a distribution via which good students can be differentiated. In reality Harvard just wants to pretend all it’s students are extraordinarily good so that they can apply for a job with a GPA that looks better than Yale. And Yale returns the favour.