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The Rise of Grade Inflation

The growing number of high marks has many professors—and some students—worried academic excellence is being cheapened. Has Dartmouth reached a breaking point?

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Mal Wrenn Corbin '96

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We’re in the living room. This is one of those apartments we haven’t yet hustled any furniture for. There’s a reddish-brown shag rug. The twins are playing on the dirty clothes pile near the kitchen, climbing up and then jumping off the top of it like it’s a hill. They screech, the twins.
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