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No, the most common grade at Harvard is A or some variation thereof. See the Carol Joyce Oates interview.

It's possibly gone up since I was college-aged; this was from when I was living in Boston and hanging around a bunch of Harvard students in 06-07.

The grade inflation has been going on at Harvard for longer than that. Best not to rely on anecdata over data. Especially since the group of Harvard students you hung out with was likely far from a random sampling.

The median course grade at Harvard has been A- for over 20 years.

It's inflated, but then again, how much Harvard coursework mastery is actually necessary for your job?

In the state school I went to in the 90s, they were acolytes of the bell curve.

Mastery or not, if your score bumped you out of the curve, you were getting a B.

Friends in Ivy League schools would get As or incompletes.

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