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Earlier this week, in ‘Easy A’s for Ivy League Idiots’ I wrote about the massive level of grade inflation in the Ivy League.
In 2005, a quarter of Harvard students received A’s. In 2025, it’s over 60%. At Yale, A’s went from 67% of grades in 2010 to 78% of grades in 2023. The prestigious university has had awkward moments like before, such as when 91% of students graduated with honors in 2001, and these days it tries to keep the number of honors graduates in the 50s. But much like shopping in a supermarket, it’s hard to avoid the inevitable recognition of inflation when looking at the 3.8 GPA that’s the floor for most Harvard seniors.
At Yale, the average GPA is 3.7 and a cutoff was implemented to keep the number of honors graduates at 30%. Anything else would make Yale seem as ridiculous as Harvard.
Grade inflation is one part of the scam, but another is defining disability down to such an extent that everyone is disabled.
Not quite everyone. Just 1 in 5 at Harvard.
At Brown and Harvard, more than 20 percent of undergraduates are registered as disabled. At Amherst, that figure is 34 percent. Not all of those students receive accommodations, but researchers told me that most do. The schools that enroll the most academically successful students, in other words, also have the largest share of students with a disability that could prevent them from succeeding academically.
A “disability” that magically lowers their standards.
The increase is driven by more young people getting diagnosed with conditions such as ADHD, anxiety, and depression, and by universities making the process of getting accommodations easier.
When a disability is defined as being ‘sad’ or ‘anxious’, well then everyone is disabled.
One recent Stanford graduate told me that when she got mononucleosis as a freshman, she turned to the disability office: Because she couldn’t exercise, she was struggling to focus in class. Though she’d always been fidgety, she’d never had academic issues in high school—but high school had been easier than Stanford. The office suggested that she might have ADHD, and encouraged her to seek a diagnosis. A psychiatrist and her pediatrician diagnosed her with ADHD and dyslexia, and Stanford granted her extra time on tests, among other accommodations.
Paul Graham Fisher, a Stanford professor who served as co-chair of the university’s disability task force, told me, “I have had conversations with people in the Stanford administration. They’ve talked about at what point can we say no? What if it hits 50 or 60 percent? At what point do you just say ‘We can’t do this’?” This year, 38 percent of Stanford undergraduates are registered as having a disability
Disability has become the emotional support animal of accommodation. It’s a scam that has gotten out of control and is further devaluing what’s left of the credibility of a college degree.
Already, at one law school, 45 percent of students receive academic accommodations.
What are they going to do when they have to get actual jobs? Oh that’s easy, they’ll demand ‘mental health days’.
Woke up feeling exhausted, irritable, and overwhelmed? Not ill, exactly, but not quite well, either?
A cough, fever, or nausea are clear signs you should think about taking a sick day. But it’s not always as obvious when your psychological load is pointing toward a similar remedy — a mental health day.
Shrugging off all responsibilities, even for just 24 hours, can help you return to work and life with a fresher perspective and leave you feeling calmer, more capable, and perhaps even more productive, says clinical psychologist Natalie Dattilo, an instructor of psychology at Harvard Medical School.
The only thing they’ve really been trained to do is to pull a Tonya Harding and whine. And since the system rewards this behavior, why not make your imaginary disability into your identity.
Will Lindstrom, the director of the Regents’ Center for Learning Disorders at the University of Georgia, told me that the fastest-growing group of students who come to him seems to be those who have done their own research and believe that a disability is the source of their academic or emotional challenges. “It’s almost like it’s part of their identity,” Lindstrom said. “By the time we see them, they’re convinced they have a neurodevelopmental disorder.”
Lindstrom worries that the system encourages students to see themselves as less capable than they actually are. By attributing all of their difficulties to a disability, they are pathologizing normal challenges. “When it comes to a disorder like ADHD, we all have those symptoms sometimes,” Lindstrom told me. “But most of us aren’t impaired by them.”
Much like transgenderism, playing the victim can be profitable. So why not do it? 20% of Harvard does. Those are our leaders of tomorrow.
Disabled Harvard grads are incapable of distinguishing their rectums from a hole in the ground. This presents great life challenges.
My son had a girl in his High School who would sometimes come to school in a wheelchair and sometimes not because she was “transabled”. The school accommodated her without question. This is the kind of stupid shit these kids grew up with. and all sorts of idiocy was normalized and often encouraged by the so-called educators in the school system. Kids came to school in furry costumes, in their pajamas, and girls had their ass cheeks hanging out of their shorts, it’s no wonder they can’t function in college, the workforce, or society at large.
There is apparently a new clinical field. Pedagogic somatic illnesses (PSI) result from overexposure to education to antisocialize students. Yet, the education system posits normality is a social construct.
Next Harvard will issue the diploma’s on a watermelon.
Fucking losers. Just deal with life and don’t blame your troubles on other people or institutions.
Things like ADHD and autism do exist, I’ve encountered people who very definitely suffer from those conditions.
I’ve encountered far, far more that have been diagnosed as having one or the other of those conditions who have no such thing, and are well and truly within the normal range.
But shrinks are busy over diagnosing because by doing so they are guaranteeing themselves an ever increasing income stream, just the same as all those counsellors who aren’t doing anything to actually help their patients, but instead are keeping them anxious, depressed, paranoid, etc., so that they have a lifetime income stream from them.
I thought being mentally disabled was a prerequisite to get into Harvard.
0nly one in five !? must be a misprint . ! ” WOKE UP ” great play on words there daniel .
Disability is only one of many scams perpetrated by the sick, lame and lazy.
If only one in five Harvard grads claim to be disabled by campus-induced pathologies then the other four in five should be commended for their “grin and bear it” stoicism. Clearly, all of those “woke” freaks suffer from the mental illness that Dr, Charles Krauthammer (Harvard, 1975) labeled Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Imagine all these frauds getting into businesses and running the country in the future.
This is part of the bigger plot to destroy America from within.
Ivy League schools boast the highest inclusion of DEI grads! Seeking mediocracy for your business? Help is on the way!
1) Does transgenderism count as a mental disability? Is “liberalism a mental disorder”?
2) Many years ago, I was arguing online with someone over whether red states are better than blue states. He said 1 in 6 psychologists live in California. I told him that’s where the market is.
On a side note – As a young Airmen in my Air Force days, there was a female that claimed a bad back. Then the first sergeant caught her doing cartwheels in the dorm hallway. A month later and I never heard from her again. Malingering is a UCMJ offense.
Every time I see a picture of Tim Walz, all I see is Charlie Brown.
Disability is the new ‘it’s not my fault.’ Sucks, because it detracts and minimizes from those who are truly disabled. Same as women who scream rape, when it is either should be ‘the walk of shame,’ or they are trying to get attention or money for nothing. Really minimizes those who are truly raped… where the perp should swing from a rope.
Increase the benefit of a behavior and you should , logically, expect to get more of it. Reward women for having children by men who are not supportive, loving fathers and you get more children growing up in single-parent homes. Give taxpayers’ money to support illegal aliens and you’ll get more illegal aliens. Go easy on criminals–see “defund the police”– and you’ll get more crime.
Hmmmm, what could go wrong with “equity” grading in which you are still given 50% for doing nothing?
Students are failing to learn basic economics. How bad is it? We get Nancy Pelosi who thinks food stamps stimulate the economy. We have a majority of Americans who support minimum wage laws who do not understand the only true minimum wage is zero, i.e. the amount you get when no one will hire you because the cost is too high.
A few years ago there was a scandal involving professional athletes with disable parking stickers. Increase the benefit of engaging in fraud and you get more of it.
Anytime you reward bad behavior and punish good behavior, the result is more bad behavior and less good behavior; the good people (students) either adopt the bad behavior or they get sick of it and leave for more sane surroundings. California is a perfect example, and New York is very close behind.
Once you kill the golden geese, everyone suffers in misery and poverty; of knowledge and problem-solving skills in the case of universities or wealth in the case of cities, states and countries that reward malingering.
Hopefully these worthless “elite” schools that turn out poor quality, neurotic, whiny graduates with poor grammar, composition and communication skills will drive away qualified candidates and our best and brightest will seek better investments for their education dollars.
Reminds me of the State highway patrol employees in California several years ago. Someone noticed back then that when these employees retired, about 40% of them had filed worker’s comp disability claims around 6 months before retiring. Why? Because these “disabled” employees realized that they would get a bigger retirement check from the pension system if they retired with a disability! Perhaps we can call this the Gavin Newsom trickle down corruption syndrome.