How is Grade Inflation at Rochester?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Rochester
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<p>I heard that some private colleges have insane grade inflation(especially Ivies) in compare to state colleges.
Is there grade inflation at Rochester? (I don't think so, but I'm just wondering) and if so, how much are grades inflated. How difficult is it to get an A in a course(especially Economics major courses) at Rochester and about how many percent of students get A's, B's, C's, and etc. What is the statistical average of GPA's here?</p>

<p>I'm class of 2016 :) so excited</p>

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<p>No grade inflation. Rumored to have some grade deflation, but can’t confirm that for a fact.</p>

<p>I don’t think UR posts average GPA statistics.</p>

<p>However, this from CAS may help put grading into some perspective for you:</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.rochester.edu/college/ccas/AdviserHandbook/Honors.html[/url]”>http://www.rochester.edu/college/ccas/AdviserHandbook/Honors.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>If this is true, then ~1/3 of all graduating seniors this year have GPAs of 3.64 or above. With the 3 datapoints above, if you’re inclined to do some curve fitting, you can probably figure out the median GPA.</p>

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<p>Without answering any of your questions directly, grade inflation - or allegations of grade deflation at some schools - is less of an issue in real life than in perception. For example, Ivy schools have very high grades but that’s in the context of how those kids score on the bleeping tests - like LSAT - that contribute so much to admission to grad school. If you work backwards from LSAT scores to the expected GPA, you can argue those grades aren’t even high enough (which to me shows the system is a mess). </p>

<p>Many fine schools have low gpa’s. GaTech is notable for low grades. Princeton has low grades. Doesn’t hurt them at all. Some fairly lousy schools have high grades. It doesn’t help them. Grad schools adjust grades; they get the reported averages and scale and they apply their own proprietary rankings of difficulty to raise or lower grades. Smaller grad programs look more closely at what you take, at what you do, etc. so overall gpa matters less anyway.</p>

<p>Economics grad programs - the top 14 and all that - look at your scores. I have a close relative in a top 14 program and getting in took very, very strong math, a few years of experience in quantitative work, high scores and very good grades. It would be difficult to distinguish between the many kids from all over the world who apply to these relatively small programs; they all have such high results. (As an aside, his roommate dropped out after making really big dollars short selling Asian stocks.) </p>

<p>If you want to go into a company, then I have less hard info.</p>