<p>Some schools have huge grade inflation/deflation.
Usually, schools with low rank have grade inflation,
and schools with high rank have deflation.</p>
<p>(ex: you work and study the same amount on a same subject,
but in a school with grade inflation you'll get an A
and in a school with grade deflation you'll get an B.
More challenging the school is, more deflation there is, usually)</p>
<p>What do you think of this? Is this fair?
In my school, B here is basically A in other schools. BUT apparently, according to the last year seniors after getting their acceptance letters, this does NOT matter when you're applying to college.</p>
<p>Colleges know the rank of your school, but apparently does not take a big consideration on grade inflation/deflation.</p>
<p>so basically you're saying that i went to one of the better schools in the county w/ a reputation for giving a lot of work and grade deflation, but i could've gone to an easier school, easily pull off a 94+ avg, and possibly get into a better college?</p>
<p>excuse me i need to change my pants...</p>
<p>Its not really fair, but theres nothing you can do about it. If you want an A that bad just study harder</p>
<p>My school was a private school focused on college preparation. The people there had to apply and get i; we had some very good students. However, we did have grade inflation. The average grade across all classes was something between 87-88, which is a very high average I (this is for 10-12).</p>
<p>In 8-9, however (my school is 6-12), it was pretty well assumed that a B there was an A in any other public school.</p>
<p>my school have major inflation problems to the point I'm doubting the prestigiousness (however you spell that) of AP classes (not the exam, just the class). I heard one of my AP teachers would feel VERY bad if he flunk someone so everybody gets good grades no matter what....the clubs too, you go to the first meeting, pay the due, don't show up for the rest of the year and you're in, way to go...</p>
<p>sry for the little rant I had going there, just that it sometimes bugs me...school being easy is still pretty sweet though...:P</p>
<p>The top 10% is 98-94.something. That's pretty inflated, right? No weighting either.</p>
<p>But if only I could get a bit of that inflation in my AP Chem class!</p>
<p>Last year we had 78 seniors out of about 600 to get above a 4.000. Still our school is not that easy and many kids goto ivies and other prestigious colleges.</p>
<p>My school has just plain out ridiculous grade inflation. 50% of the students in my class have a 3.3 or higher (all unweighted). But the average ACT is a 23, which is just a tad above the national average. So yeah, major grade inflation.</p>
<p>In effort to curb grade inflation, my school happened to reduce weight on honors and AP courses just as I became a freshman. Previously, an A in an honors/AP class would factor into a GPA as a 5.0, but now AP As are 4.5s and honors are 4.3s.</p>
<p>Basically, all this accomplished was a drop in the GPAs of the top 10% from ~4.5 to ~4.15. I know colleges are supposed to remove weight in regard to GPA, but...argh.</p>