Do law schools care at all about grade inflations?

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<p>I attend a public university, where the median grade is curved to be a B-.<br>
I heard that at Harvard, the median grade is curved to be a A-.
Do law schools acknowledge the grade inflations at places like Harvard or do we just have to deal with it?</p>

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<p>1.) They don't care an awful lot.
2.) Grade inflation may well surprise you. Conventional wisdom is very backwards.
3.) Schools as a whole usually do not have standardized curves. It varies from course to course.</p>

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<p>No, schools don't generally care. The median grade at Harvard is not an A-. I think bdm(?) posted an excerpt about actual grade inflation/deflation in another thread a few weeks ago. The Ivies mainly have grade deflation.</p>

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<p>As anyone who has read this board for a while knows, the OP's viewpoint is one of my pet peeves. </p>

<p>To the extent that law schools take grade inflation/deflation into account, they do it by comparing the actual median gpa of students from any given undergraduate college who are applying to law school as calculated by the LSDAS with the actual median LSAT scores of those same students. So, we cannot determine whether a particular college is grade in-/deflated without knowing the median LSAT score. </p>

<p>Think about it: Lets say that at a high school, the median grade of students enrolled in the IB program is a 3.4 and the median GPA of kids in the non-college prep/vocational track is 3.0. Is the IB track "grade inflated"? Can we say that if we took one of the kids with a 3.0 in the non-college prep class and put them in the IB track, (s)he would now get a 3.3 GPA? </p>

<p>The median LSAT at Harvard is usually about a 166. The median LSAT at one particular big square state flagship U. is 149. If the median GPA of students applying to law school from H is about 3.46 and that at big state U. is 3.15, is the latter really grade "deflated"?</p>

<p>I am NOT denying that there are a FEW schools which REALLY are grade deflated--think MIT and Swarthmore. But, the fact that the median GPA at any school is a B minus isn't in and of itself enough to tell us that it's grade "deflated."</p>