Harvard University has been consumed by an internal report arguing that grade inflation at Harvard has increased dramatically over the years.

In the 2005-06 school year, 25 percent of all grades were A’s.

In the 2024-25 school year, 60 percent of grades were A’s.

The average time students spent studying has remained relatively constant — 6.08 hours per week in fall 2006 to 6.3 hours as of last spring.

So, Harvard students — but not students at most other colleges and universities in the country — have either become exceedingly smarter and more effective over the last two decades, or, far more likely, Harvard professors are handling their fragile, privileged students with kid gloves.

“An A for you! And an A for you! Everyone gets an A today!”

Either way, Harvard apparently ain’t what it used to be. The once prestigious institution appears to be devolving into a diploma mill for its supposedly talented students and legacy nepo babies.

Some of this might be an exaggeration — but maybe not. Sixty percent is an enormous number of A’s. Either way, I like to poke at privilege and pretension whenever possible, and though I know some wonderful, humble, decent people who graduated from Harvard, I also know my share of Ivy League monsters, too.

I was also offered a full scholarship to Yale, which I declined because I needed to continue managing a McDonald’s restaurant in Hartford to support myself financially and wanted to pursue a teaching degree at St. Joseph’s University simultaneously.

Traveling to New Haven every day would’ve been impossible.

I attended Trinity College instead. They, too, offered me a full scholarship.

After years of struggle and trauma, community college was good to me.

However, since I received the scholarship offer from Yale, my allegiance has leaned toward Yale, which is currently not embroiled in a grade inflation scandal, although it still, at times, suffers from insufferability.

Still, Yale’s not handing out A’s like candy, so it’s okay in my book.