Many colleges were involved in grade inflation; but the schools with the most evidence of this action are the Ivy League schools. Two of the schools in the Ivy League program that are known for this practice are Harvard and Princeton in a study conducted by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences “in 1966, twenty two percent of Harvard undergraduate students earned A’s. By 1996, that figure rose to forty-six percent. That same year eighty-two percent of Harvard seniors graduated with honors.” They conducted the same study with Princeton University students, what they found was “In 1973, thirty one percent of all grades at Princeton were A’s; by 1997 that rose to forty three percent. Also in 1997, only twelve percent of all grades given at Princeton were below the B range. “(Rosovsky, Henery and Hartley, Matthew, Evaluation and the Academy: Are We Doing the Right Thing? (Cambridge, Massachusetts: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2002)
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