<p>From what you can tell, current students or not, is there much grade inflation (or deflation) at vanderbilt? Thanks.</p>
<p>From what I have heard, Vanderbilt grades pretty hard and the people there consider it grade deflation (although I think this is only relatively speaking, it seems more like its closer to neutral and most other places are inflating).</p>
<p>are you a current student there? so no manipulation of any kind. not many curves on tests and basically you get what you get. wait, so does this mean that you aren't competing against your classmates?</p>
<p>theres no inflation, if anything deflation</p>
<p>Usually, curves in vanderbilt tests go like this. If you make a 90 or above, you're guaranteed an A; if you make below a 60, you are guaranteed an F. In between a 60 and a 90, the grades are curved. But yes, no grade inflation at vanderbilt, just neutral grading or grade deflation.</p>
<p>ecnerwalc3321, no I'm not a student at Vanderbilt. I live in Nashville and my best friend goes there, plus Vanderbilt was my second-choice college so I did a lot of research about it. Rather than sharing my personal experience (as I don't have any as a student there), I'm just telling you the consensus from what I've read online and in books.</p>
<p>I would agree with MatthewM04. There doesn't seem to be grade inflation, but neither is there grade deflation. I'm in the engineering school which is supposed to be the hardest school of all (although I'm not in the hardest majors - commonly thought to be electrical engineering, biomedical engineering, and chemical engineering around here) and I had no problems maintaining a fairly high GPA - nothing lower than an A- so far. Most professors are fairly lenient about grading: one class I was pretty sure I had an 89 of some sort after the final but I ended up with an A-. Some of the upper division engineering courses aim for a B- average so that's where you really get killed.</p>