<p>Do you think there is some merit to the idea that private college teachers would be nicer or less cheap with grades than public college teachers, because they are afraid to lose students and their tuition? Public school teachers might get tenure more easily and might not be worried about being fired. Does your GPA only depend on what you do?</p>
<p>College professors are not like high school teachers. Their job, first and foremost, isn’t teaching you. Professors rarely get fired because of grade disputes, or complaints about their marking/class from their students. They are researchers/professionals in their own field, and their most important work are their work in that field, not work in the classroom. Private universities does put more emphasis on smaller classroom size, having the professors teach instead of TAs and such, but you won’t get higher GPA because the professor is afraid of complaints or loss of students. Any selective college would have too many students who wants to be in, not too little. You want to transfer out, that just leaves a spot for the thousands that want to transfer in. There is some grade inflation/deflation going on in some colleges, but it has nothing to do with their worry of losing students or tuition. Remember, for every student that goes in, university actually pays tens of thousands of dollars on that student, even if the student is a full-pay. It’s not like a store where they’re afraid of losing customers. Also, students represent the reputation of that university. Universities, especially private ones, rather lose a crappy student, than have that student graduate then work in McDonalds with their diploma.</p>