<p>As per the article, Professors call it “a failure on the part of this faculty and its leadership to maintain our academic standards”, “embarrassing”, and “troubling”. The Education policy committee says it’s “a serious problem” and the Boston Globe once called the grading policy “the laughing stock of the Ivy League”. This should not be a compelling reason to go to Harvard. </p>
<p>I think this is around “I scored 2300 on the SAT, should I retake?” in terms of lacking perspective.</p>