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<p>Again, the issue is about relative grade inflation, which means that the real issue is whether MIT students suffer from grade deflation relative to peer schools. MIT students are obviously some of the most technically competent students in the world, so one would expect them to earn high grades simply by that fact alone.</p>
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<p>Yeah, but what about that freshman MIT year? That is precisely the time when savvy premeds at other schools could be racking up strings of easy A’s. </p>
<p>Heck, mollie herself has freely admitted that her MIT grades were relatively subpar, including some C’s, and she could have almost certainly gotten higher grades had she gone to an easier school (and she wasn’t even an engineer). Nor should this be taken as a shot at mollie - as I have never hesitated to deem her one of the most brilliant graduates from MIT in recent history. But she’s living proof of what I’m talking about: even a brilliant student at MIT can wind up with relatively unimpressive grades.</p>