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Princeton students when they apply to jobs or graduate school. Malkiel has said that she sent pamphlets to inform institutions about the policy so that they consider Princeton students equally, but students argue that Princeton graduates can apply to other institutions that know nothing about it. They argue further that as other schools purposefully inflate their grades, Princeton students' GPAs will look low by comparison. Further, studies have shown that employers prefer high grades even when they are inflated. The policy remained in place even after Malkiel stepped down at the end of the 2010–2011 academic term.
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and launched the college's new four-year college system. In 1996, Weiss
Malkiel co-inaugurated a program of Presidential Teaching Initiatives which was funded by alumni Harold McGraw Jr. in 1998 "to endow a center for promoting innovative teaching and effective learning throughout the University." Later, the four-year college system was established in 2002 with Weiss Malkiel and
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