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by davrosthedalek 2303 days ago
How are the students not hurt if the reputation of their university is damaged? Especially if you are a good student. Graduate admissions are aware of this kind of stuff, and it will screw over real A students royally.
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Harvard awards nearly all A's and their reputation hasn't suffered for it:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2013/12/...

I suspect it would take a lot more than one "A strike" to substantially impact a school's reputation.

I can tell you with 100% confidence that grade inflation is taken into account in grad admission. Been there, done that. Same as arbitrary scale changes (Let's give A+...). But it will be a long time until this impacts Harvard. OTOH, it seems Princeton steered back.