You know, there's been tons of news stories lately about great inflation at Harvard.

So rather than give less A's, they've decided to give A pluses.

It would make their undergrads look better for law school admissions purposes.

Hello and welcome to episode 545 of the Thinking Elseap podcast.

I'm Ben Olson.

With me is Nathan Fox.

We're the co-founders of Elsaid Demon.com and the Elsaid Demon Daily podcast.

Let's jump into this New York Times article. The title is, one solution for too many A's.

Harvard considers giving A-plus grades.

Yeah. There's been tons of news stories lately about grade inflation at Harvard.

Yeah.

And they decided, oh, yeah, it's, hey, if we're giving 55% of our classes are getting A's, you know, then what that's

meaningless.

You can't distinguish the top players because they're all just.

So rather than give less A's, they've decided to give A pluses, or at least that's

one proposal.

This is from the article.

It says, Harvard has been on a campaign to make it harder to get an A.

And a series of proposals may be put into effect later this year.

A report issued in October suggested allowing grades of A plus, which are not currently used at the school as a way to recognize the best performing students, demoting the routine ordinary A to the second rung of the grading ladder.

Harvard's Office of Undergraduate Education studied the inflation issue last year, surveying students and faculty members before releasing a report in October.

The report encouraged the faculty to bring grading,

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