<p>Which colleges do the most grade inflation? Which do the most deflation?
I think this is a critical factor for me to consider in my search process. I am possibly interested in going onto medical school so GPA is vital for medical school admissions and from what i've heard med schools don't account much for grade inflation when they look at gpa's from different schools (correct me if i'm wrong). Furthermore, at any rate I would like to be not as stressed out over maintaining grades in college and enjoy more or spend time on extracurricular activities (important for med school). I feel that i could get into some top schools like ivies or mit or at least have strong applications. Among these schools, which schools grade inflate and which ones deflate. For starters I know that harvard and stanford do grade inflation and UC berkley is extremely hard to get good grades in. </p>
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<p>If your looking at ivies, all of them have grade inflation except for Cornell and Princeton. I think the UCs do not inflate grades.</p>
<p>Try <a href=“http://www.gradeinflation.com/”>http://www.gradeinflation.com/</a> for some nice data, use that solid blue as a “Grain of salt” dividing line.</p>
<p>A general rule is that public deflate, privates inflate. Harvard, Yale, and Stanford are big offenders, as is/was Cal, actually. On the other side of the spectrum, Georgia Tech is brutal.</p>
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<p>While it is fine and good to consider this, the bigger issue will be that you really don’t want a huge amount of debt going into Med School. To me, that is a bigger factor than grade inflation anyway, but as was posted earlier, the high level privates tend to have the biggest issue with grades having slowly creeped up over time.</p>