<p>Just something I keep hearing..</p>
<p>1st I heard of that</p>
<p>I hope so…</p>
<p>Inflated GPAs? I’ve never heard of this. Honestly, I’d assert the exact opposite. All I hear is how a few freshman every year flunk out of Tulane because they can’t handle the rigorous classes and a New Orleans-type social life at the same time.</p>
<p>Honestly, I’ve never heard of inflated GPAs at Tulane, though it wouldn’t surprise me because Tulane is a top-notch school academically. I know some of the Ivies, for example, have rampant inflation, though Princeton, last I herd, was the only one to take effective steps to curb it. Many universities do not have a stated policy of grade inflation, but any school with many programs geared toward grad school will naturally want to boost their stats and the success f their students by giving them a little “boost.” I searched this topic a bit and found this site </p>
<p>[National</a> Trends in Grade Inflation, American Colleges and Universities](<a href=“http://gradeinflation.com/]National”>http://gradeinflation.com/)</p>
<p>which shows that GPA inflation is a national trend. However, this site has data on seemingly every college in the South except Tulane, so I poked around the 'net for data on Tulane grades and couldn’t find any articles about inflation at the undergraduate level. Tulane does seem to practice inflation in law school, but it’s certainly not infamous for any type of tampering at the undergraduate level. </p>
<p>Of course, since I’m not a student yet, I’m not privy to as much information as some other CCers, so I can’t say yes or no to the original question definitively. However, I do think it’s safe to say Tulane has no particularly remarkable trend in grade inflation over time, as you see with Harvard, Dartmouth, Duke, Yale, or even MIT.</p>
<p>This kind of thing ranks up there with so many of the “issues” that get a life with no evidence whatsoever. Tulane professors grade like professors at nearly every other university. If you put in the work and perform well, you will get a good grade. They aren’t out to reward you for nothing at one end or to screw you for no reason at the other. Sure, some are tougher graders than others and so by definition some are easier. As Diomedes says all schools have this. Over the last few decades, rather than grade students on some absolute scale or even on a bell curve, the trend has been to say “Our students are among the brightest in the world. Why should any of them be penalized with a poorer grade just because they went to our school rather than a lesser school where they would have been at the top of the class?”. A wonderful debate for an entire other thread.</p>
<p>I will say that while this topic has come up on CC for undergrads at many other schools, especially the ones Diomedes mentions, this is the first time I have ever heard it mentioned in the context of Tulane. It strikes me as creating an issue where none exists.</p>
<p>there could very well be grade inflation in liberal arts classes here (i wouldn’t really know, to be honest), but in the sciences, most classes are graded based on z-scores, with the average student earning a B- or C+.</p>
<p>I’ve actually heard the exact opposite…so much for heresay…</p>
<p>Heresay, before I came, said that premed classes here were easier than general classes elsewhere. Fact is, after I came, this isn’t true.</p>