Perhaps it does, maybe it doesn’t. But, if those numbers (or letters) are right, it’s a more realistic distribution, even among super high-performing students.
But I am keeping the focus on ALDCs at Harvard. I don’t know whether MIT has such a focus on ALDCs that Harvard apparently does. And I guess this all came out of the Harvard litigation, which MIT didn’t experience. So, I don’t know what emphasis MIT places on ALDCs. Just a hunch, but for a school like MIT, I wouldn’t think so for at least the As or the Ds, but I am no expert at it.