When an ‘A’ means average, even Harvard has a problem — and they know it

Last year, the average GPA for Harvard University’s Class of 2025 was 3.83. That’s not a typo.

At Harvard, one of the world’s most selective colleges, the average student graduating in 2025 had a 3.83 GPA on a 4.0 scale. That meant that the typical student received an A or A-minus in nearly every class they took.

Harvard has plenty of company. Yale’s average GPA was a similarly laughable 3.7 in 2023, with nearly 80 percent of grades in the A to A-minus range. Public universities boosted grades by 17 percent between 1990 and 2020.