It depends, but probably not as much as you would think.
With a grade curve that high, a B usually means one of the following:
1. Tough weeder course.
2. The person does not really understand the material, especially for upper division courses.
3. Something personal (illness, family issues, personal issues, etc.).
For folks who care about grades, like hiring officials or graduate admissions folks, they typically know about the grade inflation.
It might be a benefit in law school admissions that mostly use a strict formula with gpa as part of that formula.
Anyway, if someone is choosing Harvard over another school due to GPA inflation, then I have a feeling that they won’t gain that much at Harvard or the other school(s) that admitted them. That seems to be optimizing for something fairly minor in the scheme of things.
With a grade curve that high, a B usually means one of the following:
1. Tough weeder course.
2. The person does not really understand the material, especially for upper division courses.
3. Something personal (illness, family issues, personal issues, etc.).
For folks who care about grades, like hiring officials or graduate admissions folks, they typically know about the grade inflation.
It might be a benefit in law school admissions that mostly use a strict formula with gpa as part of that formula.
Anyway, if someone is choosing Harvard over another school due to GPA inflation, then I have a feeling that they won’t gain that much at Harvard or the other school(s) that admitted them. That seems to be optimizing for something fairly minor in the scheme of things.