<p>That's MIT's problem, perhaps? I guess what that means is Harvard's grades are "inflated" with respect to MIT but probably not inflated with respect to some other schools if because of the caliber of the H students. Anyway, what gives MIT the right to be the standard? ;)</p>
<p>Sam Lee, who said that LSAT and GPA are closely related? If we accept that as true and compare Berkeley and Stanford, maybe you are correct, but why should we take that as true?</p>
<p>Also, I don't think going to Stanford means getting easy "A's." I think it means slightly easier "A's," than say, Berkeley, but a much easier B+ and B. Perhaps it is justified, perhaps not, but that is how I see grade inflation. My friend at Stanford said that A's are very tough to get, even A-'s, but anything less than a B- and you either weren't trying or something went terribly wrong.</p>
<p>Where does Brown fall on this difficulty scale?</p>
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<p>I would turn the situation around and ask what gives Harvard the right to be the standard? Keep in mind that I'm not just talking about MIT. Caltech is in the same boat. So are you prepared to say that if Harvard inflates its grades, that's not Harvard's problem, but rather MIT's and Caltech's problem? </p>
<p>And perhaps a larger point needs to be made. It is a well known fact that engineering and science courses tend to be graded harder, even within the same university. Why? Why should that be the case? From an equity standpoint, why should certain disciplines be consistently graded harder than others? I recall that when Princeton implemented its new grade-change policy to rein in grade inflation, the science and engineering departments noted that that they wouldn't have to change a thing because they had already been complying with the tougher grading standards, and that it was the humanities departments who would have to change their ways to comply. But that simply elicits a larger question of why were the humanities departments grading easier in the first place?</p>
<p>I know what you mean. I was in engineering school. It did bother me sometime when my GPA was lower than some not because they were smarter but because they were in different schools.</p>
<p>Northwestern University is the most difficult by far; this quarter I'm taking a class named "Introduction to Mathematics" Things don't get more difficult than that now do they? lol</p>