<p>Yes, what universities...not LACs -> excluding Harvard</p>
<p>Harvard had 91% honors graduates, Yale 51%, princeton 44%. This is from a Boston Globe article about 3 years ago. Cornell had about 10% honors and the rest of the Ivys were between 10 an 40 % honors as I recall. I don't think the average cumulative gpa of graduates is published anywhere so it is hard to say where grade inflation is rampant. Colleges calculate this statistic for their own internal use but it is not published. The average gpa would have to be placed in the context of the schools selectivity. An 80% difference in honors graduates between Harvard and Cornell can't be entirely explained by a difference in student ability. I believe Harvard and Princeton are addressing their grade inflation problem. Have not heard about Yale.</p>
<p>yale has inflation like Harvard Like, all their students graduate. seriously</p>
<p>don't forget Stanford</p>
<p>It's not about all students graduating. It's about them all graduating with ridiculous high GPAs.</p>
<p>Princeton isn't addressing grade inflation in any significant way. Putting a cap on the A's given out at 35% is hardly a cap.</p>
<p>Don't forget most of these students had ridiculously high GPA's to even get into these schools! I truly don't understand what the problem with "grade inflation" is at these colleges. Technically those students would be getting great grades if they went to other schools. Why "pit" them against each other by curving the grades downward ? I think the schools that pride themselves in "no grade inflation" do a disservice to the students in the long run.</p>
<p>kjo, higher ranked schools are supposed to be more difficult, this is why they have a higher standard for admissions, it is to make sure that the student can do well in the school once they enroll. the average gpas at all higher institutions should be around 3.0. There is virtually very little difference between student quality of MIT and Harvard and Stanford, yet stanford has an outrageously high average gpa. <a href="http://www.gradeinflation.net%5B/url%5D">www.gradeinflation.net</a></p>
<p>There is an actual web site that can be found at <a href="http://www.gradeinflation.com%5B/url%5D">www.gradeinflation.com</a></p>
<p>However, it appears to be based on data from several years back, and the author even states: "The data presented here come from a variety of sources including administrators, newspapers, campus publications, and internal university documents that were either sent to me or were found through a web search."</p>
<p>We all know how web search data may or may not be accurate. Citing this source could be just be adding to the useless inaccurate data resouce list.
It should also be noted that the author happens to be a disgruntled professor that has been very vocal about his dissatisfaction with one of the schools in the study!</p>
<p>If you give everybody an A, it takes away the "meaning" of it. No way 91% of students at any school are THAT exceptional in EVERY class they take. No way.</p>
<p>People need to realise that grades aren't what matter, it's the learning that does. I'll happily accept any B's I get next year at Princeton</p>
<p>If grades didn't matter, they wouldn't give them! Grades matter A LOT. Employers put a lot of weight on GPA so you had better take grades into consideration. Anyways, I'm not saying learning isn't as important, but a lot of stuff you learn in college you will never use in the "real" world.</p>
<p>People make it seem like the difference between an A and a A- is a matter of life or death, and that they'll postiviely DIE if they don't get a 4.0 at an Ivy. I'm a 4.0, never worked for a grade in my LIFE, and I will be more than happy with any B's I get at Princeton, because I realise that I'm not good at everything - i.e. writing, English, etc. You aren't a failure if you get a <em>gasp</em> B+.</p>