<p>the whole issue of grade inflation is sort of moot and completely inconsequential. at a place like brown, you still have to work hard for your grades. maybe it's grade inflated, maybe it's not--but nobody can even agree what that means. </p>
<p>at the end of the day, brown does signficantly better than schools that are thought to be grade-stingy (like MIT, cornell, chigago, swarthmore, etc.) in placing students into top medical schools--and believe me, nobody cares more about grades than medical schools.</p>
<p>even, take a place like harvard, notorious for the most egregious grade inflation. they still beat the pants off of every other school in job and grad school placement. it doesn't seem to matter</p>