Are there data showing grades colleges give?

College Search & Selection
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<p>Does anyone know if there is any place that reports what the typical grades are that a college gives? Average and a frequency distribution (number of As, Bs, Cs, Ds) would be informative. Different cuts would be helpful, too, such as by major subject discipline by yr - for example avg grades for english classes for freshman, soph, jr, sr, whoole school.</p>

<p>Is this something that a college is required to maintain and to disclose to its consumers, a little like labeling requirements? and where would one find it? Or would one have to request this info from admissions or the registrar of the school?</p>

<p>I am basically trying determine or get a sense of how hard (how rare, or how often an A occurs), it is to get an A at a school.</p>

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<p>is this data available anywhere?</p>

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<p>I want to know this too. I read that the Ivy League schools give out mostly A grades and that you can’t get less than a B+ at Harvard. This is an issue when competing for graduate school. Maybe we can use our personal power to convince more schools to raise their average grades. If you need a 4.0 for law school, you don’t want to go to a school that doesn’t give higher than a 3.</p>

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<p>[National</a> Trends in Grade Inflation, American Colleges and Universities](<a href=“http://gradeinflation.com%5DNational”>http://gradeinflation.com)</p>

<p>scroll to the bottom of the page.</p>

<p>Right now I’m working on fitting this data to SAT scores of accepted students to determine how hard or easy the school is.</p>

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I want to know this too. I read that the Ivy League schools give out mostly A grades and that you can’t get less than a B+ at Harvard.

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<p>Do you really believe that? Really?</p>

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<p>Don’t worry about it. There is grade deflation at a lot of schools. But graduate schools know who they are. They also know who is all about admissions selectivity and fluff and puff thereafter. (cough…). Ultimately you need to just do your best and work your hardest and let the chips fall where they may. Some programs are notoriously difficult to attain an A…and weed out the weak players early…engineering is famous for this. But there are liberal arts programs that can shake you to your knees as well.</p>

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<p>Who are they? (btw, I think you mean grade inflation, right?) This pretty much is why I want to know the answer to the question. I want to know how a grad school assesses a GPA from a given undergrad school.</p>

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<p>Grad school, not preprofessional, will look far more at your research, your research interests, your letters of rec, and the strength of your program and schedule than your GPA.</p>

<p>Really.</p>

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<p>From the school’s reported average GPA, and its reputation.</p>

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Myth. Harvard’s average GPA is around a B+, 3.45, so people are obviously getting grades lower than B+'s.</p>

<p>I think logicwarrior has given the best answer on the thread so far.</p>

<p>Ehh though, Stanford is sort of embarassing on this front, yikes!</p>