<p>To current Princeton students/recent alumni,</p>
<p>What do you think about grade deflation at Princeton? Is it a significant source of stress? And does it make it harder to compete in the job market against students at other who may have higher GPAs without doing as much work?</p>
<p>I'm a prospective student and a little nervous about this part of Princeton. Thanks for your input!</p>
<p>Anyone who thinks it doesn’t pit one kid against another in the classroom is nuts. Some of the best and brightest get to shoot it out a second time, post high school. Fun stuff!! </p>
<p>Just an old profs .02 David</p>
<p>ps-If a school was going to move to a “deflation” orientation, why would you go public with it? Students should simply get what THEY achieve. “Deflation”-- Why? to enhance stress! Standards, standards, what a pile!</p>
<p>Grade deflation is pretty bad at Princeton.</p>
<p>[Princeton</a> Office of Career Services 2010-2011 Annual Report](<a href=“Princeton Office of Career Services 2010-2011 Annual Report by Career Services At Princeton University - Issuu”>Princeton Office of Career Services 2010-2011 Annual Report by Career Services At Princeton University - Issuu)</p>
<p>According to Princeton career office, only 22 entered law school somewhere and 38 to medical school somewhere. In contrast, about 100 Harvard college graduates enter Harvard Law, and more than 30 Yale College graduates enter Yale Law ( HLS is 3 times bigger than YLS). Graduate and professional schools give strong preferential treatment to applicants from their undergraduate schools, and unfortunately Princeton doesn’t even have medical, law, business schools. </p>
<p>In addition, only 42.4% of Princeton graduates found full time job. With Princeton degree, you are likely to get rejected from top graduate schools, or unemployed.</p>
<p>Please ignore youpika. He is a repetitive ■■■■■ on this forum who comes in under new names after being blocked.</p>
<p>Do a search of the Princeton forum with “grade deflation”–there have been several discussions on the topic.</p>
<p>Grade deflation only stresses you out as much as you let it. In my three semesters here, I’ve only taken one class in which I received a grade lower than the one I thought I deserved. It’s easy to blame the system, and a lot of people do just that whenever they don’t get the grades they like, but the reality is that the average GPA has dropped by .07 since 2004. My advice is simply to not freak out. People make it out to be a much bigger deal than it actually is.</p>
<p>There has been no difference in med/law school acceptance rates, and while the employment rate dropped a few years ago during the recession, it has since rebounded to pre-grade deflation levels. The top four schools we send graduates to are Stanford, MIT, Harvard, and Columbia, which is a pretty good-looking list. If grade deflation were really that bad, they’d have gotten rid of it by now. Any employer with half a brain knows that a Princeton 3.5 is not equivalent to a Yale 3.5 and will act accordingly.</p>