<p>do med schools realize that some schools (like Yale) have a ton of grade inflation while schools like Uchicago have grade deflation? How do they compare the GPAs?</p>
<p>The MCAT is a way to standardize students from different undergrads.</p>
<p>The avg. GPA at UChicago is 3.2. It's not grade deflated.</p>
<p>Most of the conventional wisdom on grade inflation is wrong, anyway. I'm guessing Yale's not that inflated.</p>
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<p>Wow. norcalguy must work at U. Chicago, because the university has NEVER given out such information. :)</p>
<p>Seriously, many folks have relied on third hand (and fourth and fifth) that seems to emanate from gradeinflation.com. that site in turn sites a no longer available paper (pdf) from Miami of Ohio that in turn gives U. Chicago data with no attribution. I recently had the opportunity to directly ask a top undergrad official at Chicago. He said they have not, and will not, give out such information. </p>
<p>So the truth is we don't know for sure. What I can tell you from other information is that a 3.9 GPA at Chicago puts one in the top 1% or so. Don't know about Yale.</p>
<p>This is data which is possibly unreliable (although it's probably pretty good) but the major flaw is that it's among pre-law students. Still, Yale and Chicago are very close on the grade deflation index, with Chicago being about .05 GPA points worse.</p>