<p>“Nice try, but how do you explain the difference between Brown’s mean gpa (3.6) and Dartmouth’s (3.4)? The students at both schools are indistinguishable on both HS gpa and test scores.”</p>
<p>My comment was about the change at Brown over time. Brown has become more selective and grades have gotten higher. The situation at Dartmouth is irrelevant. Check your logic and try again :)</p>
<p>While slightly “off topic”…did anyone know that Brown became part of the “ivy” league due to geography…
Colgate was the other choice…</p>
<p>Brown did ALOT to make the U desireable marketing-wise in recent years…</p>
<p>Very smart on Brown’s part.</p>
<p>Back to your regularly scheduled programming.</p>
<p>Another thought–Shouldn’t " peer schools " grade in similar ways…
???</p>
<p>Professional schools have high misclassification of students when using GPAs that are not independently and randomly distributed.</p>
<p>GPA alone may have some information when looking at the aggregate of all universities everywhere across which there may be some general agreement about how to grade students. However, it is quite easy to see that particular school culture and policies can easily render a GPA either uninterpretable or require a fundamentally different interpretation than the general GPA.</p>
<p>There is no reason to suggest that because someone uses GPA means that it is responsible to do so across all contexts.</p>
<p>There is no question that at Brown a GPA, by nature of how we’d have to construct it, would lead to a metric that is not a valid instrument for most purposes.</p>