<p>Does Cal practice grade deflation?</p>
<p>In other words, is it very difficult to get a good GPA? Because I plan on going for an MBA after and grade deflation will just add a burden to competing with kids with 4.0 GPAs from notoriously grade-inflated schools.</p>
<p>If it makes a difference, my major is business. So a pre-business emphasis until my junior year, where I would hopefully attend the Haas School of Undergraduate Business.</p>
<p>Can anyone shed some light?</p>
<p>I think there’s actually grade inflation as opposed to deflation.</p>
<p>If you truly deserve an A in every class (ie you do the work and understand the material), you WILL get an A in every class. Well, at least that’s how it is for math and science.</p>
<p>There might be less inflation in business but yeah…again, the general idea is if you truly deserve a 4.0 you will get one. </p>
<p>The people who actually do the reading ahead of time, do the homework (without copying answers from the internet, aka learning), and go to office hours to ask questions (that aren’t merely just “how do I do this problem”) will do well at any school, Cal included. If you think you will do these things, you will be fine.</p>
<p>You can look at the list of schools at the bottom of [National</a> Trends in Grade Inflation, American Colleges and Universities](<a href=“http://www.gradeinflation.com%5DNational”>http://www.gradeinflation.com) .</p>
<p>The process for getting a good grade in every class is not too complicated, just go to every lecture, every section and lots of office hours. How many people actually do all of that on a regular basis throughout their years on campus? Almost nobody.</p>
<p>The type of work experience you have is immensely more important to a top MBA than your grades, although you can argue that top grades -> top job -> top MBA.</p>
<p>For Business major, grades are actually inflated…in a sense. It’s based on a curve on how well everyone does. The average is considered B work I think. Roommate’s a business major.</p>
<p>Isn’t a C generally accepted as “average?” If this is the case, than Berkeley business would be on the easier side to receive good GPAs.</p>
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<p>C is what is supposed to be a solid passing grade, not necessarily the average grade.</p>
<p>Mitigated speaks the truth.</p>
<p>@cssquared
what do you mean by grades are inflated?
what courses would they be?</p>
<p>I think he might be saying its relatively easy to get a higher GPA in business classes as opposed to other classes?</p>
<p>Once you are in upper-division classes, the professors and GSIs will tend to give you a break, it’s the lower-division classes in impacted majors that will grade harshly.</p>