00:00Harvard has decided to limit the number of A's that are given out to students and while kids
00:04are not so happy about it, the people that actually hire them are rejoicing. Before this change, 60%
00:10of any grades at Harvard would have been A's and now they will be capped to 20% of every
00:15class.
00:16Making A's harder to come by is helpful for employers because now they know who is genuinely
00:21the top of the top versus whether someone just took easy classes and schemed by. As one recruiter
00:27put it, if everyone is scoring 100%, is anyone really scoring 100%? Because GPAs have been so
00:33inflated, they've gone from being one of the most important markers when employers hire a new grad
00:39to one of the least important ones. Every single recruiter or HR manager that I spoke to said that
00:45GPAs become increasingly meaningless in an era of great inflation. But they're also hoping that
00:50Harvard starts a trend here and that other schools will follow in their path to create a system that
00:55allows the most qualified applicants to differentiate themselves.
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