<p>Which of the top schools generally have high grade inflation & deflation?</p>
<p>mit/chicago/cornell/jhu = No grade inflation</p>
<p>therefore, you might think that these schools are unsuccessful in placing their graduates. True or false? you can decide, but all of these schools do incredibily well in terms of grad placement despite what the ppl on these boards tell you.</p>
<p>I did a search on google and found a thread on cc but i dont know where it is now...the writer on the thread had indicated that MIT had lower acceptance rates for its premed students into medical school than Princeton which follows grade inflation so that was why i posed the question thanks</p>
<p>yeah, that thread is in the graduate school section, I think.</p>
<p>That other well-known school in Cambridge is known to have its share of grade-inflation.</p>
<p>Deflation..Swarthmore</p>
<p>Princeton no longer has grade inflation... they have a new policy that says only 35% of students in each class can get an A.</p>
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<p>The faculty and administration at Swarthmore believe that there has been grade inflation over time.</p>
<p>The average GPA has increased (it's something like 3.24), but it is difficult to evaluate the change because Honors students at Swarthmore did not receive grades until 1996. Adding the top students into the GPA calculation probably had an impact.</p>
<p>Princeton's still pretty inflated compared to MIT and Caltech.</p>
<p>MIT has inflation, they have a B-centered curve. </p>
<p>And it's hard to look at an entire university and know how inflated the grades are. I konw at Berkeley the ethnic study depts. often have ridiculously high GPA, where the engineering is not near that level of inflation.</p>
<p>Grade inflation was invented by the Seven Sisters and perfected at Brown. :)</p>
<p>C used to be the middle of the curve, and MIT's b curve, as in 3.0, is lower than all the schools that i know of with comporable quality. If you look at harvard and stanford, the average GPAs are about 3.5.</p>
<p>Princeton new policy is probalby not going to do too much, but i support it and more schools should follow suit.</p>
<p>I am not saying other top schools aren't more inflated, they certainly are, but still...I think when people talk about grade inflation, they talk about the curve moving from a C, so, if MIT has B in the middle, then they would be inflation. </p>
<p>Yes, Harvard is absurd, Stanford didn't have an F until recently. Most schools have grade inflation now, but often it's certain departments that skew everything. Like 70% of History students at Berkeley graduated with over a 3.3, that's inflation. I didn't go to undergrad there, just grad school (where grade inflation is the law of the land), but, I don't believe that the grades in undergrad Engineering were near as skewed. </p>
<p>Then you get other issues, I went to Purdue for my BS in engineering, and drop outs are extremely high from Freshman to Sophomore and Sophomore to Junior year. So, the people left have higher grades from the first two years than they will the last two, as the competition is much stiffer. But, they still have higher grades than they would if they had that competition all four years, so that's another form of inflation. It's everywhere and at most schools</p>
<p>well, a 3.0 is under the national average of grade inflation, which to my knowledge is around a 3.25 or so.</p>
<p>Yes, MIT is less inflated than other schools, but is still inflated nonetheless.</p>
<p>I agree with you, but when talking about the subject of grade inflation, the context of other caliber schools can be helpful.</p>
<p>Well, and MIT doesn't have a "standard curve" used in all classes. (Technically speaking, profs aren't supposed to use curves at all.) Although many classes are B-centered, many are not... many others are even straight-scaled.</p>
<p>MIT does not have grade inflation, omg, how can people even say that, u have the smartest kids in America, majoring in engineering and they get like 2 point something while harvard, who has a similar pool of students, gets like 3.4+.</p>
<p>It's the humanities courses that tend to be inflated. I've heard of humanities departments where 50% or more students get A's. The sciences are often much more strict and engineering is known to be a killer at every school.</p>
<p>Most schools also have class rank, so that if you have a 3.9 but your rank is 123/500 then the graduate schools are going to know that something is going on.</p>