Reason

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 ...

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 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 ...

Harvard will cap number of A grades awarded, in what university calls "a major step to fix" 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 makes it harder for undergraduate students to get an A grade

Wesleyan University President Michael Roth joins Audie Cornish to talk about Harvard’s new policy which caps A grades for undergrad classes ...

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 ...
The College Fix

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 ...
The Chronicle

Harvard capped A’s. Duke faculty and students are skeptical.

Harvard University faculty overwhelmingly passed a new grading policy Wednesday that would place a cap of 20% on the amount ...

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 Approve Grade Cap As University Faces Soaring Grade Inflation

Harvard faculty voted to impose a 20 percent grade cap in an attempt to curb surging grade inflation at the university, the ...

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 ...