How Harvard helps its richest and most arrogant students get ahead.

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@Penn95: http://www.businessinsider.com/many-college-professors-started-using-grade-inflation-to-protect-bad-students-from-being-drafted-into-the-vietnam-war-2013-12

In a 2002 paper on grade inflation, Rojstaczer and Healy quote a University of Florida professor, who says:

The upward shift started in the jungles of Vietnam, when those of us now at the full-professor level were safely in graduate school. We were deferred by virtue of being in school, which wasn’t fair and we knew it. So when grading time came, and we knew that giving a C meant that our student (who deserved a D) would go into the jungle, we did one better and gave him a B.