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When Vaibhav Bhaskar was in fifth grade, his teacher asked the class to come up with alliterations to put on their name tags: Brilliant Bob, Kind Kailey. Bhaskar, 17, remembered being stuck.

Steinbrenner High’s valedictorian says there are more important things than eye-popping grades. Increasingly, schools and colleges seem to agree. Vaibhav Bhaskar, 17, addresses the 2026 graduating ...

When you sell investments for a profit, you may owe capital gains tax on the money you make. How much you pay is determined by how long you owned the asset before selling it, as well as your taxable ...

The GPA at UB is the ratio of the number of grade points earned at UB to the number of graded credits at UB. Only letter grades are utilized in determining GPA; letter grades are “A,” “A-,” “B+,” “B,” ...

University of Delaware student-athletes posted their best semester grade point average (GPA) ever during the spring 2026 term with a 3.405. The term GPA puts the 2025-26 department-wide mark at 3.365, ...

Many college graduates are leaving school this season with near-perfect GPAs. Sure, many are high-achieving, smart students, but as the number of students receiving top grades continues to rise, it is ...

Vincent Phillip Muñoz is a professor at the University of Notre Dame. University administrators have long known that grade inflation is a problem, but no one has been willing to do much about it. The ...

Higher education is in trouble — and grades are losing their meaning. That’s the verdict a committee from Yale University reached last month in a report that said universities have strayed from their ...

Faculty members overwhelmingly approved a limit on the number of top grades they can give to about a fifth of their undergraduate classes. By Mark Arsenault See more of our coverage in your search ...

Harvard faculty voted to impose a roughly 20 percent cap on A grades beginning in fall 2027, approving the College’s most aggressive attempt in decades to reverse grade inflation and reshape academic ...