Grades Are Being Inflated & Companies Are Favoring “Equity” Over Educational Achievement

Historically, academic achievement has been a key selling point for any potential employee. And one of the easiest measures of academic achievement by prospective employees is their grades. But grades are being inflated and therefore quickly becoming a less effective measure of academic achievement. For example, if you told your employer that you graduated from Harvard with a 3.8 GPA, that used to be pretty darn impressive! But these days, that basically just means you went to Harvard.

And you might think that’s still impressive, but wait till you find out about their acceptance policies, which some consider to be super racist because they intentionally exclude some of the highest-scoring potential students–Asian Americans– in favor of lower scoring applicants who fit their diversity agenda. There’s even a lawsuit that’s gone all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States alleging they are intentionally discriminating against Asian Americans, whose test scores are higher than some of the applicants they accept in the name of creating an “equitable” student body. Oh, and they don’t require the SAT for admission anymore. Even the American Bar Association is dropping the LSAT requirement for admissions. So, between inflated grades and “equitable” admissions, impressive grades aren’t all that impressive anymore.

But it may not matter because potential employers are also adopting the “equity” approach while ignoring the academic achievements that used to set some candidates apart.

They kind of have to, though, since academic “achievements” don’t mean what they used to. Plus, it’d make them appear racist if they prioritized academic achievements. For heaven’s sake, the Army even dropped their requirement for a High School diploma. So why should companies require academic success as a qualification for a position at their company?

The question now is whether this bodes well for society, the economy, and American industry and innovation. I mean, if we’re scrapping academic achievement and hiring based on equity instead, what if that excludes the most qualified candidate from being hired to a particular position? Should Elon Musk hire his new rocket scientists based on equity? Should he disregard academic achievement? Is this going to start happening in things like med school? Because I”m not so sure I want a doctor who was chosen for his residency based on equity and not his medical knowledge as displayed through medical school academic achievement.