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OK Harvard 4.0 GPA
birdseye
2023-07-10 22:24:52
Ellie Hylton graduates Harvard University with highest grade point average in Class of 2013, becomes first African American to rank No. 1
Waters would know. In her nearly 30 years at the prestigious Ivy League school, she has never known any undergraduate student to finish with As in every class taken at Harvard.
And she joins an extremely short list of Harvard alum to finish their career with a straight A average. Ten years ago, the school had only recorded five other students with a 4.0 GPA.
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Straight As.
“Not A minuses,” Waters points out. “Straight As.”
birdseye
2023-07-10 22:35:42
That means in the school’s history, 5 students have graduated with 4.0 GPA and one (1) of those is an African American Student This is kryptonite to some poster here
Chrissy
2023-07-10 22:39:40
In reply to birdseye
A very bright family. They are also very progressive.
camos
2023-07-10 22:41:43
birdseye
2023-07-10 23:21:06
Curtis
2023-07-10 23:50:19
We done know she didn't copy from anyone. Her Family bright people too.
As we used to say they bright bad.
birdseye
2023-07-11 00:06:25
Harvard names Claudine Gay 30th president
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Barry
2023-07-11 02:37:07
sorry Chrissy
She a wicked woman- that is why you can't judge a person by skin colour.
In 2019, Harvard Law Professor and Faculty Dean of Winthrop House, Ronald Sullivan, faced scrutiny by students and school administrators, including Gay, for joining the legal defense team for Harvey Weinstein, who at the time was on trial for rape, while serving as dean.[13] Gay believed that the role of a residential dean came with "an expectation of a special responsibility to the well-being of the students" and found Sullivan's justification for defending a unpopular defendant "insufficient."[14] In May 2019, the college announced that Sullivan and his wife, who were the university's first black faculty deans, would not have their faculty dean contracts renewed. The decision was controversial and was denounced by the American Civil Liberties Union, saying the university "could have used the incident as a teachable moment about the importance of criminal defense in our society as well as about the importance of tolerance on a campus of higher learning."[15] The university controversially announced that the decision to not renew Sullivan's contract was due to performance and morale conditions in Winthrop House.[16] However, the ACLU concluded that "from all appearances, it was Sullivan’s representation of Weinstein, not his performance as dean, that prompted his dismissal."[15] Sullivan public accused Gay and Dean Rakesh Khurana of misleading the university and the public as to their reasonings for his dismissal.
Sangfroid
2023-07-11 10:39:38
In reply to Barry
Cancel culture is a liberal thing. Bloody fascist.
BeatDball
2023-07-11 10:54:27
Exceptions are the rule?! Just assking. Fools, stop. 
camos
2023-07-11 11:14:28
Has Sullivan gone to court for wrongful termination or was there a settlement?
Sangfroid
2023-07-11 11:15:16
In reply to BeatDball
Exceptions are the rule?! Just assking. Fools, stop. razz big grin
Them not too bright.
Sangfroid
2023-07-11 11:16:17
In reply to camos
Sangy thinks one of the student that got less help her!
I think she gained entry on
merit. What a novel idea.
KTom
2023-07-11 11:43:42
A stat from that Bill Maher video comes to mind. In American colleges, since 1960, grade As have risen from 15% to 45%. Now it might be that Ms Ellie Hylton is the greatest genius since Isaac Newton or even Leonardo da Vinci - I mean, I doubt it, but it could be. However, that tells us nothing about the real subject at hand - do AA beneficiaries to Ivy League colleges, score, on average, as highly as the rest of the student body? Or in comparison to legacy admissions?
camos
2023-07-11 11:52:19
In reply to KTom
In American colleges, since 1960, grade As have risen from 15% to 45%.
Should "A" be a fixed percentage of the test takers or a fixed numerical score?
Barry
2023-07-11 16:58:09
In reply to camos
IQs have also risen, so….
KTom
2023-07-11 17:57:51
In reply to camos
It may be that, in an objective sense, the quality of education and/or the quality of the students have improved to some extent in recent decades. But I have in mind a concept developed by the economist Fred Hirsch:
Positional goods are goods valued only by how they are distributed among the population, not by how many of them there are available in total (as would be the case with other consumer goods). The source of greater worth of positional goods is their desirability as a status symbol, which usually results in them greatly exceeding the value of comparable goods. (...)
The term is sometimes extended to include services and non-material possessions that may alter one's social status and that are deemed highly desirable when enjoyed by relatively few in a community, such as college degrees, achievements, awards, etc.
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The more high grades there are, well, the more degrees, in general, the more their value will be discounted in the labour market.
camos
2023-07-11 18:25:33
In reply to KTom
The more high grades there are, well, the more degrees, in general, the more their value will be discounted in the labour market.
can't dispute that, but information is more widespread now than in the past, another factor is American tests are largely binary , you may say, a yes or a no, not reasoning explanation type we grew up on.
KTom
2023-07-11 20:18:38
birdseye
2023-07-11 20:42:22
Slipfeeler
2023-07-11 21:31:58
It’s like a guy name Dale Able who got straight A’s in Medical School at UWI, Mona Campus . This brilliant Jamaican endocrinologist who serves as Chair of the Department of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. His works on the molecular mechanisms that underpin cardiac failure in diabetes. He is a Fellow of the American Heart Association and the American College of Physicians. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022. He completed his doctoral research in physiology at the University of Oxford.
Slipfeeler
2023-07-11 21:38:51
This guy was so brilliant that he was a member of Wolmers’ High School Challenge team from he was in fourth form, before he even sat O’Level exam, usually a very competitive position among students sitting for A’Level exam.
birdseye
2023-07-11 22:18:51
In reply to Slipfeeler
race is not intrinsic to human beings but rather an identity created, often by socially dominant groups, to establish meaning in a social context. Different cultures define different racial groups, often focused on the largest groups of social relevance, and these definitions can change over time.
• In South Africa, the Population Registration Act, 1950 recognized only White, Black, and Coloured, with
Indians added later.[27]
• The government of Myanmar recognizes eight "major national ethnic races".
• The Brazilian census classifies people into brancos (Whites), pardos (multiracial), pretos (Blacks), amarelos (Asians), and
• indigenous (see Race and ethnicity in Brazil), though many people use different terms to identify themselves.
From an article titled: Race (human categorization)
Slipfeeler
2023-07-11 23:02:45
Higher education was originally designed to serve the White majority, and prepare White men for leadership roles in society (Karabel, 2005; Thelin, 2011). Since this genesis, racism has man- ifested in higher education policy at federal, state, and institutional levels. For example, the establishment of Historically Black Colleges and Universi- ties (HBCUs) and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) during the 19th century exemplifies how racism has informed seemingly objective and pro- gressive higher education policy. These Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) have served large numbers of college students of color, and it could easily be assumed that their establishment was benign or altruistic. However, scholars have argued that the establishment of these campuses reflects Whites’ histor- ical unwillingness to accommodate students of color within their own higher education systems, but readiness to help establish separate institutions for stu- dents of color that maintained a racially segregated postsecondary education system. Indeed, intentions of the founders of MSIs were sometimes charac- terized by racism (Gasman, 200
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Sangfroid
2023-07-12 11:03:40
In reply to Slipfeeler
What a load of crock. To what extent would "minority colleges" change the landscape of education, be it new knowledge, existing knowledge, or methods? White men dominate - and increasingly Asian men - every subject area imaginable, and there is little evidence this will change any time soon.
Slipfeeler
2023-07-12 11:06:15
In reply to Sangfroid
Apparently these people write from their own perceived experience not from our experience or reality.
Sangfroid
2023-07-12 11:13:38
In other words, there is little attempt at falsification, which, for all intents and purposes, is anti-reality. Not surprised at all.
Barry
2023-07-12 11:20:53
Donald Trump needed affirmative action
A close associate of Dr. Kelly, a former Wharton professor with 31 years of experience, vividly recalls his remark about Donald Trump:, “I remember the inflection of his voice when he said it: ‘Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had!'” He would say that [Trump] came to Wharton thinking he already knew everything, that he was arrogant and he wasn’t there to learn.”
Drapsey
2023-07-12 12:15:47
