Inflation vs Deflation

Student Lounge College Life
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<p>What are some schools famous for their grade inflation? deflation?</p>

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<p>inflation: Harvard</p>

<p>deflation: Cornell</p>

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<p>Deflation:
Wharton-avg 2.85
NYU Stern-avg 2.7</p>

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<p>deflation: W&M</p>

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<p>wher can you find numbers of average gpa?</p>

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<p>Grades at USC tend to be deflated.</p>

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<p>Any Inflations?</p>

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<p>Harvard! About 90 percent of Harvard students graduate with honors.</p>

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<p>Im actually doing a research paper on grade inflation. Its pretty crazy stuff. and actually W&M is one that is hightly inflated</p>

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<p>USC uses the "Stern curve". Any school that uses that curve deflates their GPA.</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.gradeinflation.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.gradeinflation.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>any schools that have rise in gpa average recently are inflated</p>

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<p>really? W&M inflated? I must just be really stupid...</p>

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<p>I'm...stunned that there isn't UCLA on there.</p>

<p>Private schools win by average GPAs...no surprise there.</p>

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<p>Princeton implemented a grade deflation policy.</p>