<p>Does anyone know if Princeton has plans to do away with grade deflation?</p>
<p>Not that I know of. Plus, it’s a new policy, and they need more than 6 years to determine its level of effectiveness.</p>
<p>From what I’ve read it doesn’t seem like the grade deflation policy affects engineering students much. Also, it seems like many jobs/grad schools take lower GPA’s into account.</p>
<p>^True, grade deflation impacts the humanities/social science fields much more. In reality, the science courses haven’t been affected at all, really. If you think about it, 35% A’s in a science class is really high; usually 25%-30% of people get A’s in those classes anyway. I remember reading some statistics about how grade deflation has impacted the number of A’s given out. In the sciences, the figure dropped about .5%, so there was virtually no change at all due to the policy (whereas the humanities and social science classes saw a 8-10% drop in the number of A’s given, from about 50% down to the low 40%'s).</p>