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Re:We Don’t Do Legacy (2012) by arcanus on Sunday April 02, 2017 @10:55AM (#14017365)
> Yale, on the other hand, is extremely competitive in terms of grading

Nonsense.

'A YDN survey of the Class of 2006 found the median GPA to be about 3.6'

http://yaleherald.com/news-and-features/features/grading-inf...

All the ivies (and all US news top25, really) have grade inflation.

Yale's graduate business school doesn't even have grades.

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Re:We Don’t Do Legacy (2012) by JumpCrisscross on Sunday April 02, 2017 @11:13AM (#14017425)
Fair enough. I should have said "more competitive". Individual performance, e.g. being ranked against one's peers, is prized more at Yale than at Harvard. I have mostly hired Yale undergraduates and lawyers--no visibility into their B school.
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Re:We Don’t Do Legacy (2012) by _acme on Sunday April 02, 2017 @12:53PM (#14017811)
Yale's law school doesn't have grades (neither does Harvard, anymore). How is that emphasizing competitiveness?
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Re:We Don’t Do Legacy (2012) by arcanus on Sunday April 02, 2017 @04:59PM (#14019017)
Interesting! I've found Yale's to be more intellectual, although also less practical. Any other schools that (anecdotally) fit a profile?
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