<p>I'm guessing Cornell is the hardest ivy because they have no grade inflation there.</p>
<p>please excuse my ignorance guys, but what is grade inflation?</p>
<p>Whenever grades are pushed up by the teachers so that the average is much higher than it should be. For instance, at my school, there is massive grade inflation. I could not study, not pay attention, get a A on a test, but then take the AP test or SAT II and get 600 or less, or below a 3. And I'm really good at standarized tests too.</p>
<p>so i just went to this welcoming session thing in San Francisco and the recent alumni (i think they were like class of 01?) said that Columbia has MAJOR grade inflation...their scale runs from like a a+ to like a b+ a lot of times. also my interviewer for Columbia had told me the hardest part was getting in...after that just work hard but it's definitely not that bad. math and science kids have it harder and so do the engineering kids.</p>
<p>I heard from a Cornell parent that Columbia and Cornell have the least severe ivy grade inflation, but that can't be called a fact at all.</p>
<p>maybe. My parent's friend's daughter goes to Harvard and is barely getting above a C+ average.</p>
<p>She's probably either a "hard sciences" major or reeeally slacking off. 90% of Harvard's graduating class graduates with honors- particularly in the humanities.</p>