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  2. Legacy preferences - Wikipedia

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    Currently, the Ivy League institutions are estimated to admit 10% to 15% of each entering class using legacy admissions. [21] For example, in the 2008 entering undergraduate class, the University of Pennsylvania admitted 41.7% of legacies who applied during the early decision admissions round and 33.9% of legacies who applied during the regular admissions cycle, versus 29.3% of all students ...

  3. Former Harvard president Larry Summers slams Ivy League ... - AOL

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    About one in five students from Harvard’s graduating class of 2024 reported having a nearly perfect GPA, rounding to 4.0, according to the Harvard Crimson. Nearly 80% had an average GPA of 3.7 ...

  4. List of law school GPA curves - Wikipedia

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    Harvard Law School – The current grading system of dean's scholar, honors, pass, low pass, and fail had at one time a recommended curve of 37% honors, 55% pass, and 8% low pass in classes with over 30 JD and LLM students. [132] Between 1970 and 2008 Harvard established a GPA cut-off required in order to obtain the summa cum laude distinction.

  5. Grade inflation - Wikipedia

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    In 2008–09, A grades (A+, A, A−) accounted for 39.7% of grades in undergraduate courses across the university, the first time that A grades have fallen below 40% since the policy was approved. The results were in marked contrast to those from 2002 to 2003, when As accounted for a high of 47.9% of all grades.

  6. General Schedule (US civil service pay scale) - Wikipedia

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    As an example (and not including locality adjustments), an employee at GS-12 Step 10 (base salary $98,422) being promoted to a GS-13 position would initially have his/her salary set at GS-13 Step 4 (base salary $99,028, as it is the nearest salary to GS-12 Step 10 but not lower than it), and then have his/her salary adjusted to a higher step ...

  7. This is the average salary of Harvard Business School grads

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    This median salary is reported to be an increase from last year’s $172,090 average salary for Harvard Business School alumni. This is the average salary of Harvard Business School grads Skip to ...

  8. Does the secretive board running Harvard get a failing grade?

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  9. Educational inflation - Wikipedia

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    Grade inflation is the tendency to award progressively higher academic grades for work that would have received lower grades in the past. It is frequently discussed in relation to education in the United States, and to GCSEs and A levels in England and Wales. It is also discussed as an issue in Canada and many other nations, especially ...