All shall have prizes: An animated infographic showing grade inflation at Ivy League universities. <br />All shall have prizes. Grade inflation at Ivy League universities.<br />Sixty-five years ago the average grade at Harvard was around a C. Today it’s about an A. <br />The same holds true at Yale.<br />And at Dartmouth. <br />Across America’s Ivy League, the data is patchy but the trend is unmissible.<br />Grade point averages have risen -- steeply at first, and then gently. Certainly student quality has improved: the Ivies are no longer gentlemen’s clubs for rich dunderheads. But standards also seem to have loosened. <br />Today, Brownies have it easiest, while Princetonians have to work a bit harder.<br />Though the schools do not disclose the information, they have not contested it either. <br />Maybe the so-called “excellent sheep” have lackadaisical shepherds. <br /><br />For more video content from The Economist visit our website: http://econ.st/1vJDt98
