Posted on 12/07/2023 11:50:52 AM PST by nickcarraway
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About eight percentage points higher than five years prior
A supermajority of undergraduate grades given out at Yale University were an A or A- according to a new report from the student newspaper.
The Yale Daily News obtained a copy of the 2022-23 grades report from an economics professor at the Ivy League university in Connecticut.
The dean of Yale College, the undergraduate branch of the university, acknowledged that professors are not properly grading students. The report shows 78.9 percent of grades given out in the 2022-23 school year were an A or A-. This is a slight dip from the 2020-21 school year when 81.97 percent of grades were above a B.
“As you can see, a large majority of grades in Yale College are in the A range (A or A-),” Dean Pericle Lewis told the student newspaper. “This results in compression, making it difficult for instructors to use grades for their intended purpose of helping students understand areas of strength and others that need attention.”
Professor Ray Fair, who provided the report to the student newspaper, said the inflation is a leftover from the COVID-era. “Some thought [the COVID effect] would be temporary, but it has more or less persisted. [It’s] probably the faculty going easier on students because COVID was a pain,” he told the student newspaper.
By comparison, students in the 2010-11 school year were less likely to earn a graded in the A range. Only 67.23 percent of students that year earned an A or A-.
There is a difference between the hard sciences and the liberal arts, particularly majors such as gender studies and African-American studies.
“In general, STEM subjects seem to have lower percentages of A-range grades, and humanities subjects seem to have higher percentages,” the student newspaper reported.
For example, only half of economics students achieved an A. Meanwhile, 82.21 percent of African American studies students earned an A or A-, according to the reported data for courses with an “[e]nrollment greater than 500.”
The student newspaper also provided data from several courses with lower enrollment. The numbers show 92.6 percent of gender studies’ grades were in this range.
This is not the only Ivy League that has seen high grades. Harvard University gave 79 percent of students an “A” grade in the 2020-21 school year according to data released this semester. This is a 20 percent increase from a decade ago, as previously reported by The College Fix.
Scholars who oppose grade inflation have reportedly found themselves out of jobs as a result of their decision. This includes former Indiana University-Northwest scholar Mark McPhail and Kendrick Morales at Spelman College.
Some professors have explicitly advocated for easier grading in the name of gender equality.
Pay the tuition, get the grade.
>>Meanwhile, 82.21 percent of African American studies students earned an A or A-
When the only requirement is to make a black power fist and scream “Kill Whitey!”, it’s difficult NOT to get an A.
Never hire these losers.
Yale, where an A is just a participation trophy.
Participation trophies
Old saying: It’s tough to get into an Ivy League school, but easy to get out.
Side story: I was a chemistry major. Nothing easy about that. On some exams, 1/4 of the class failed. And yes Organic Chemistry, I’m talking about you.
Ah, but I had to take this one liberal arts course. It was a large class, say 200 students. On the first exam, half the class got an A (including me). All the rest got B’s. Except there was one C. Nothing lower.
I got the message. Do not study for this class. Wing it, and you’ll do just fine. Instead spend that time trying to figure out the steps in synthesizing cyclobutane.
I’ve read this article in many places, and I think it misses the point.
The H-Y-P faculty and administration has been cleaned out and is now dedicated to a SINGLE PURPOSE.
Getting the letter of acceptance means a student has ALREADY BEEN VETTED for the ruling class, and, as such, MUST be SMART and DESERVING of straight As.
Like, what’s the point of the work? It’s a waste of time, a distraction from revolutionary praxis, and why shouldn’t our future rulers get constant dopamine hits from praise from their elders?
It’s not a school, it’s a cult. Once you’re in, you’re in for good.
Yeah, that’s “grade inflation,” just about renders grades meaningless. So if you can inveigle yourself into the school to begin with, you have smooth sailing, just have fun and stroke the politically useful profs once in awhile. Don’t actually have to learn anything. You’ll get your “Ivy League education” right on time, no sweat, Got it made.
Poison Ivy League
This is nothing new. For years many Ivy League Law Schools and Medical Schools would not accept their own graduates because the KNEW all about grade inflation.
does it really matter what grade someone deserved in gender studies?
I had some professors, male and female, that I was able to finagle an ‘A’ in their classes just by taking the ‘liberal’ viewpoint on everything. It was too easy..........
Exactly, and my kid will lose out to a Yale applicant cause he got a legitimate 4.0 from a D1 state university, not Ivy league!
Like someone earlier said, pay the price, get the grade-BS!!!
Do away with all the requirements and receive your diploma in attendance.
I bet for women and minorities, that number approaches 100%
Everyone is special.
“You can always tell a Yale man but you can’t tell him much”
Pay the tuition, get the grade.
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Of course. The whole point of getting a Yale degree is to impress people and join the old boy network. You want to be able to say you got a high GPA when you are down at the Marina. You’ll probably even say you graduated top of your class, just like 8 out of 10 people who were in your class would say too, because you all tied.
Now that’s one very expensive participation trophy
Participation trophy is EXACTLY what it is.
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