<p>Which of these schools has the highest grade inflation: Brown, Duke, or Princeton with its new proposal? </p>
<p>Another question-random-is Duke more prestigous than Brown? Which school does the medical school accept more from?</p>
<p>First of all, what medical school are you referring to? Brown is Ivy League which is hard to get away from but I feel that Duke is actually more prestigious. I know nothing about grade inflation but I do know Duke has an outstanding medical program.</p>
<p>Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and Duke medical schools</p>
<p>Brown and Duke are probably at-par in terms of their prestige (I would give Brown the upper hand just because it's an ivy league) and Princeton is more prestigious, but probably not for medicine. Out of the three, Duke has the best medical school.</p>
<p>So to answer your question: Princeton, Brown, Duke in that order
In terms of getting into top schools, you could get into a good school from any of those places to be honest. It doesn't make much of a difference really, so go for the place you love.</p>
<p>Prestige among these colleges does not matter at all. </p>
<p>You are unlikely to go to medical school where you went to college, so the prestige of the associated medical school does not matter.</p>
<p>All have rigorous curriculums, top students, and relatively high average GPA's. All would be excellent places to be a premed. If you end up having a choice, choose based on what you like, which seems best in the academic and extracurricular areas that appeal to you, part of the country, student body, size, or other criteria. All send lots of students to medical school year in and year out.</p>
<p>grade inflated schools</p>
<p>Amherst, Williams, Brown, Penn, Columbia, Dartmouth, Duke, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, and yes Princeton ( i don't think limiting A's to 30 percent is grade deflation)</p>
<p>grade deflated schools</p>
<p>Swarthmore, U of Chicago, Cornell, Harvey Mudd, Cal Tech, and MIT</p>
<p>Limiting A's certainly isn't grade inflation. And considering how their old policy allowed for more than 30% to get A's, in relative terms, Princeton is currently practicing grade deflation.</p>
<p>30% getting A's is a large percentage.</p>
<p>ok, call me stupid, but what exactly is grade inflation?</p>
<p>grade inflation is students getting higher grades than they deserve, and the trend of GPAs rising. At some schools, a huge percentage of the students get A's in classes. If half the class is getting an A, then 35% are probably getting a B, with very few getting a C. Grades are losing their significance. Everyone at the school cannot be way above average compared to others at their school, which is what grades are supposed to measure, how well a student does compared to other students.</p>
<p>I think there's a great deal of inflation at all three schools, so I'd say Pton-Brown-then Duke. But I think it depends more on course selection than the overall school.</p>
<p>Duke is percieved as more prestigious probably everywhere but the Northeast (which counts for a lot). There is actually a significant overlap between acceptees at each school and from what I've seen and heard, accepted students two both schools who live in N.E choose Brown over Duke, whereas kids from the Midatlantic/South/West Coast probably more often choose Duke.</p>
<p>Do you mean which Med school takes more undergraduates? Because I think if either Brown or Duke med took more from their undergrad schools, its more because of coincidence than anything.</p>
<p>Brown probably has the upperhand on the West coast as to "prestige." Medical school acceptance, and the kind of prestige you're asking about, aren't closely related, I imagine. You should go to each school's websites and find information about med school acceptances, both percentages and real numbers, and perhaps percentage of people who enter intending to go to med school who later change their minds.</p>
<p>As to princeton and their new policy, some tenured profs said they would ignore it, and I doubt anything will be done to them. What grades do measure, soccerguy315, may be how well you do compared to everyone else, but some schools might have different policies about grading.</p>