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Originally posted by Morgeruat:
Graduating from Harvard, even on a C average is still quite an accomplishment, especially compared to the likes of Al Gore, whose father bought him a trip to a couple of Ivy League schools where he dropped/flunked out.
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You don't understand. I know an admittedly-lazy student at Harvard who spent one whole semester doing plays off campus and avoiding work whose lowest grade was a C. Harvard Law grades on an A- curve, and no one flunks. About the absolute worst you can do, if you just show up for a final exam, is a C or C-. I'm sure what you said made sense to you based on how normal school grade curves work, but I think you'll see things in a different light with this added piece of information. The jaded among us believe that Harvard considers even its worst students to be better than the rest of us, so it doesn't flunk hardly anybody. This issue has gotten a lot of press in recent years.
And, my school graded on a B- curve, which I often have to explain to people in interviews because so many schools grade on a high curve. It's quite often that I have to explain this and then point out that they should look at my class rank to confirm it.
