“Grade Inflation” a Problem for Colleges
Well, I can’t say I didn’t see this problem coming. As soon as I heard that students and their parents were suing over grades (happened many years ago), I figured teachers would just start handing out A’s and B’s to avoid controversy.
Now, this AP article asserts that grade inflation is a real problem for college admissions boards. So many applicants have perfect high school records that it’s hard to determine which students to accept and which to reject.
“We’re seeing 30, 40 valedictorians at a high school because they don’t want to create these distinctions between students,” said Jess Lord, dean of admission and financial aid at Haverford College in Pennsylvania. “If we don’t have enough information, there’s a chance we’ll become more heavily reliant on test scores, and that’s a real negative to me.”
Thirty or forty valedictorians in a school? That’s ridiculous. I graduated back in 1992 and our class had 6 valedictorians, which I thought was a lot back then. Forty is just insane.
Full article right here.