colleges with grade inflation?

College Search & Selection
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<p>Are there any good universities (UC level) in California that practice grade inflation?</p>

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<p>All of them do, to some extent. Why do you ask?</p>

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<p>i thought the UCs were know for their grade deflation</p>

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<p>Grade inflation is a relative concept. All schools, UC's included, are grade inflated today relative to the past. And they are certainly highly inflated relative to, say, Caltech. However, against other schools, you could say that they are grade-deflated.</p>

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<p>thanks for ur replies, what I'm asking is, would it be hard to get A's in science classes at UCB and UCLA?</p>

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<p>The question is - hard compared to what? "Hard" is a relative concept. Again, I would assert that it is far far easier to get an A in science classes at UCB or UCLA than it is at MIT or Caltech.</p>

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<p>Sakky, justify that.</p>

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<p>Life long feud against Berkeley, eh...</p>

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<p>If you consider a 3.00-3.10 UCLA campus-wide GPA to be evidence of grade inflation, then I don't know what grade deflation ought to be... The UC schools and other flagship public institutions are supposed to set the nation-wide GPA standard.</p>

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<p>Who designated that "The UC schools and other flagship public institutions are supposed to set the nation-wide GPA standard."? Also, could you cite the place that provided your number, and also show how it compares to UCLA's average say 5, 10, and 30 years ago. Then, tell me UCLA has no grade inflation. I"m not saying that it's rampant, or that it's a special case. It has about the same as many schools, but it is there, just like it is here.</p>

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Sakky, justify that.

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<p>I'll put it to you this way. How about we go to the Caltech and MIT sections of CC and we make a post asserting that UC is not grade-inflated relative to the Institutes? I'm fairly certain that Ben Golub of Caltech and molliebatmit of (obviously) MIT would have a LOT to say about that.</p>

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<p>The people who designated that the UC schools and other flagship institutions are supposed to set the nation-wide standard are the majority of middle-class American high school graduates who've enrolled there before grade inflation ever became an issue; it's self-evident that nation-wide college statistics are most influenced by the schools with the largest student bodies. My point was to reflect the masses of students attending state universities, both flagship and second/third tier - whose GPAs are vastly out-influencing those attending private colleges (where grade inflation is supposedly occurring).</p>

<p>Also, the place where I got my numbers from is the Daily Bruin: it doesn't carry older stats from decades ago, but I doubt they're even made publicly available on the Internet. :rolleyes:
<a href="http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/articles.asp?ID=21638%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/articles.asp?ID=21638&lt;/a>
<a href="http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/articles.asp?ID=19671%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/articles.asp?ID=19671&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Sakky, I want you to justify that it is "far easier" to get an A in a Berkeley or UCLA science class than in MIT or CalTech. You said it- justify it.</p>

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<p>Like I said, the best way to do it is not for me to say it, but to hear it from the Caltech'ers and Mit'ers themselves. So, wanna join me over there? There's no need for me to spend energy justifying it when I'm certain that the people over there will happily do it for me.</p>

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<p>Sakky, that's an unrepresentative sample at best. You can't just say that two students, one each at MIT or CalTech, can accurately gauge how difficult their courses are in contrast to UCLA or Cal unless they have both been previously enrolled at UCLA or Cal or preferably both.</p>

<p>While I don't doubt that MIT and Cal Tech offer at least somewhat more rigorous curricula, I find it hard to believe that using student X is a good way to deduce the fact.</p>