<p>I've heard that most ivies have grade inflations. does ucla have grade inflation/deflation or neither?</p>
<p>Overall, UCLA has neither (it's about 3.10 campus-wide). The public university systems are most likely to be the institutions who set the nation-wide standards in GPAs, naturally. Grad schools and employers know about this among the UCs, if that's what you're inferring to.</p>
<p>With math/science (non-GE) courses, I would say that there is grade deflation. In humanities and social science classes-- it seems somewhat easy to get a B, but fairly challenging to get A's.</p>
<p>The campus-wide average is about 3.10. Then how about the average GPA in the engineering department? Competition in the engineering department is cutthroat, and is it extremely difficult to get A's? Or is it possible to get at least 3.20 GPA in the engineering as long as a student puts 5 hours for study everyday?</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure the average GPA in the engineering school is below 3.0
And there really is no way to put a specific number on the amount of work it takes to get a certain GPA, since that varies greatly by person. If only it were so easy... :)</p>
<p>The average engineering GPA is about 2.80. Yes, engineering-major classes are cutthroat, because most of the classes are curved to a B-, leaving A/A+ grades as one-and-a-half standard deviations from the mean. Therefore you have to be in the top 15% or so if you want an A as an engineer.</p>