<p>just wondering if anyone could help me come up with a list of schools that are known for grade inflation. ex. does duke do this?</p>
<p>Eh? Why? (10 chars)</p>
<p>I'm guessing your a HS student.</p>
<p>The schools with grade inflation tend to be those that are harder to get into and whose student body have are generally on a higher intellectual level....there are many schools that fall into this category though that do not inflate their grades. I guarantee you that you won't be able to chose a school based on this because odds are you won't get into any of the schools that do this.</p>
<p>On top of that, the grade inflation exists because the level of competition is greater than other schools so at the end you do more work at the grade inflated school for the same grade you would've gotten for less work at some other school.</p>
<p>^Yep.</p>
<p>The schools known for grade inflation are generally the top schools (with possible exception of MIT). Despite the grade inflation, it is still probably harder at those schools.</p>
<p>For example, despite the average GPA at Cornell being 3.35, you can see Cornellians still do exceptionally well on the MCAT:</p>
<p>Whereas, nationally, a 30 on the MCAT equates to around a 3.6 GPA, the median MCAT of every GPA group at Cornell above a 2.8 is above a 30. The limiting stat for Cornellians is grades not MCAT scores.</p>
<p>@norcalguy</p>
<p>I've heard that Cornell is the most grade deflated Ivy. Is that true?</p>
<p>No (10 char)</p>
<p>I don't mean to be condescending, but that is what people keep saying. Also, I saw this statistic that Cornell had the lowest average GPA of the Ivys.</p>
<p>As a pre-med student at Cornell, what is your perspective?</p>
<p>I'm saying that Cornell is hard but no harder than any other top school.</p>
<p>Cornell is very transparent. It freely provides data on its law and med school admissions, on its grades, etc.</p>
<p>Cornell</a> University Registrar</p>
<p>Grade</a> Inflation at Cornell » Outside The Beltway | OTB</p>
<p>Just the fact the registrar provides median grade reports is a huge advantage to Cornell premeds since it allows them to determine which classes are hard and which aren't. Cornell is as grade inflated as everyone else.</p>
<p>Georgetown?</p>
<p>You don't need to go to a grade inflated school per se to take a grade inflated college curriculum. If you're ready to waste your college tuition on nothing, be my guest and take the easiest possible college curriculum you can. Every college has its own easy classes, it's own grade inflated classes, so it's really not that hard to do. </p>
<p>But if you're interested in choosing your college on the sole basis of how easy it would be for you to earn high grades (this is VERY different from grade inflation), then you'd probably be best off going to a school with less competitive admissions (which usually won't be grade inflated). Think of it this way. Suppose for a sec that SAT is perfectly correlated with college performance (which it's not in reality). And suppose you have a 1300/1600. In that case, even though Harvard might give out ~ 50% A/A-s, you probably won't be getting any of those considering you'll be at the bottom of your class. But if you go to a local college where the average SAT is 1100/1600 yet only 25% of the grades given out are A/A-s, chances are that you'll be at the top of the curve and will stand out even though this college might be considered grade-deflated. </p>
<p>So to be perfectly honest, the whole concept of grade-inflation = easy is a total fallacy.</p>