<p>In well known universities, most are aware if they have grade deflation or inflation, but what about lesser known universities?</p>
<p>When grad schools/companies look at applicants' GPAs from different schools, how can they compare the number? Some schools might be much easier to get a high GPA, whereas others may be much more difficult even of the school is not well known.</p>
<p>My schools adcom has said it has a specific min GPA for top schools, and a higher GPA for lesser schools. Thats just how it rolls. Also, GRE’s help equalize things.</p>
<p>Sometimes, good students do suffer from GPAs that are artificially low. The best example of this is Caltech, where average GPAs were once so low that it was very hard for most students to get into a non-Caltech graduate program.</p>
<p>I heard U of Michigan has serious grade deflation… I did not think Purdue had much of either, but grad school A was an 85 in nearly all my classes and it was not THAT difficult to get A’s… </p>
<p>Also, look into grade policies when thinking about grades… How is the grading scale? if the have +/- or assign numeric only grades GPA’s will be different than straight A/B/C schools with no in-between’s.</p>