60 Percent of Grades at Harvard Were A’s. Enough Is Enough.

Ultimately, grade inflation hurts not just the quality of individual students’ education; it hurts the university — any ...

Harvard faculty vote to cap 'A' grades at 20% in sweeping effort to combat decades of grade inflation

Harvard faculty voted to limit A grades to 20% of undergraduate course enrollment in a major step to combat decades of grade ...

Advice for Harvard students on how to survive your first A-minus

Students are upset because the Ivy League school wants to limit the number of A’s it awards. But the shift could be a ...

Harvard faculty votes to limit number of A's awarded, aiming to combat grade inflation

Harvard University faculty members voted to cap the number of A's awarded to students in an effort to make the grades more ...

Harvard’s grading reset begins in 2027: Faculty vote to curb easy A’s in undergraduate courses

Harvard University is implementing a new grading policy to combat grade inflation, limiting A grades to 20% of students ...

Harvard faculty votes to limit number of A’s it hands out to slow grade-flation

It would be flippant to say that [Harvard] grades are useless,” a law school dean told the Washington Post, “But they’re ...

Harvard faculty votes to make it harder for undergrads to earn A’s

Top grades have become so common that some Harvard faculty members argued they no longer reliably distinguished exceptional ...
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Getting an A at Harvard will be tougher starting in 2027

Harvard University faculty gave an emphatic “yes” to capping A grades in a vote Wednesday amid concerns about grade inflation ...

Harvard moves to limit A grades in undergraduate courses to strengthen academic standards

The move comes after years of debate over whether grades at elite universities have become too inflated to meaningfully distinguish exceptional academic work.
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Harvard just made straight A’s much harder to get

Harvard faculty voted 458 to 201 to cap A grades in undergraduate courses starting in fall 2027, limiting them to 20% of ...
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60% of Harvard Grades Were A's in 2025. Now the School Is Fighting Grade Inflation.

In the 2024–2025 school year, 60.2 percent of grades awarded at Harvard were A's, according to the school's Office of Undergraduate Education. For context, only a quarter of undergraduates received ...