<p>Is it a bad idea to chose a college which suffers from grade deflation if you plan to go on to graduate studies? will I get rejected from grad school if im up against somone who chose a college with grade inflation? </p>
<p>thnx</p>
<p>bump. someone please answer</p>
<p>It’s tough to say, it really is. Swarthmore, a school that is known for being impossible to get A’s, sends more students per cap. than almost all other schools in the nation. It is very tough to tell you a straight answer. I think it is more a matter of “Is this school academically challenging compared to a school that is not.”</p>
<p>well the school I’m considering is arguably the top in Canada(or at least one of them). So yes it is academically challenging(depending on the major of course) and it is know to deflate grades. But do graduate school and medical schools consider that or can someone at an easier school or easier major with a higher GPA beat me in acceptance?</p>
<p>It really depends… In my opinion if a person from Swarthmore is applying to law school/grad school with a 3.0GPA and a student from ND,UNC,W&M,etc are also applying and they have a 3.5, the person from Swarthmore has the same chance if not better because of how hard it is at a school like Swarthmore. If a school just gives out A’s to get their students to graduate, grad schools will notice it.</p>
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<p>Where did you hear that? I’ve heard the opposite actually… that law and med schools don’t compensate for major and for school. Grad schools are probably a different story as they’re less numbers oriented.</p>
<p>Med school is different, as I tried to stay away from saying that. But in the field of academia, it is excepted that schools such as Swarthmore tend to have more acceptances to top notch grad schools even though a Swarthmore student might have a lower GPA than another student from another school. This is because the reputation of Swarthmore as an extremely rigorous school with an extremely tough curriculum. It is hard to answer a question like this, and I hope I do not come off as stupid. But like I said, grad schools know which students went to the toughest schools…</p>
<p>what about Wake Forest? that’s one of my top choices… but I’ve heard the grade deflation is terrible…</p>