<p>What is grade inflation like at Stanford? Compared to other schools? I'm mainly looking at poly sci, history, philosophy, etc.</p>
<p>I don't go to Stanford, but I have heard that there is grade inflation, yet not as much as at Harvard. There have been some posts about it, although it might have been in the MIT board that I saw them.</p>
<p>wut do u mean by grade inflation? is that good or bad?</p>
<p>what other ivy schools have this "grade inflation"?</p>
<p>Grade inflation basically means that it's easier than it should be to get an A (or a B or whatever). Harvard is renowned for grade inflation (although I think they are trying to stop it), and MIT is renowned for being the opposite, although you wouldn't call it grade "deflation," you would just call it normal. Grade inflation is good and bad. It's good, especially for premed students who need stellar GPAs, because it means you will have a better looking transcript. It's bad, because when people read your transcript, they will take your grades with a grain of salt (assuming they know about the grade inflation).</p>
<p>Yep. Take a look at this article: <a href="http://www.dartreview.com/archives/2002/03/01/grade_inflation_at_the_other_ivies.php%5B/url%5D">http://www.dartreview.com/archives/2002/03/01/grade_inflation_at_the_other_ivies.php</a></p>
<p>I was looking at that and Dartmouth used the median grade, but wouldnt it make more since to show the mode grade. Or whichever one is more common. If its the median than it requires that people have Fs as well as As. I don't think Fs are a requirement in fighting grade inflation.</p>
<p>i was talking to an administrator at stanford over the summer, and he says the deal with grades at stanford is that it's pretty easy to get a b - if you do the work etc. but you have to work your ass of to get a's, and you have to really slack of to be getting c's. so basically you could coast along in the b's if you wanted.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gradeinflation.com/stanford.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.gradeinflation.com/stanford.html</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.gradeinflation.com/harvard.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.gradeinflation.com/harvard.html</a></p>
<p>Yeah, anycollege, but in what department? In general? I'm guessing engineering and philosophy have vastly different grade scales.</p>
<p>he did no specify what dept</p>
<p>i'm a freshman at stanford...</p>
<p>i would refrain from saying that it's "easy" to get a b. In specific classes (and these are by far the most easily graded classes), its probable that 50% will get B's and A's (perhaps top 18-20% A's), but be sure that you will be beating 50% of studying, working Stanford students to get that B, which, in my opinion, is a hard feat, in itself...</p>
<p>I'm not taking a ego-boosting/self-institution proponent stance, it's just my feeling that its not "easy" to be getting B's anywhere if you're among an entire class of motivated students who are at the institution because the were at the top of their high school classes in the first place...</p>