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i think it's fine if universities grade on whatever scale they want, or none, and it's not clear who is hurt by this. I guess if you have to hire Harvard new g

i think it's fine if universities grade on whatever scale they want, or none, and it's not clear who is hurt by this. I guess if you have to hire Harvard new grads, want to base your decision on their academic performance, and would prefer more fine-grained rankings of performance, this is not in your interest. The very top students may also wish they had more chance to distinguish themselves. However the way it seems to work in many schools with grade inflation is that it's easy to get an A, but still pretty hard to get an A+, so there's still some opportunity here. I'd also add that at Princeton, attempts to combat grade inflation were very unsuccessful and resulted in strange unintended consequences, like students carefully strategizing which sections of courses to take to avoid those believed to have heavy competition.

ghaff 3y ago
>I'd also add that at Princeton, attempts to combat grade inflation were very unsuccessful and resulted in strange unintended consequences, like students carefully strategizing which sections of courses to take to avoid those believed to have heavy competition. Certainly, if you're going to major in some quantitative field, you can only avoid so many of the courses in that major. But, if you're really interested in optimizing for GPA, you can often still major in some variant of the major that provides more flexibility and--where you have electives--take classes that are easy (for you).