Which Colleges Have Grade Inflation (Lots of A's!!!)?

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<p>So which colleges have a bit of Grade inflation. I've been hearing that Harvard does... something about 91% of the senior class graduating with A's.... I've also been hearing that Princeton just introduced a cap on how many A's can be given out. Something around 35% of the each course...</p>

<p>What about the other Ivies, Stanford, and top notch liberal arts colleges like Amherst?</p>

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<p>quoted off of Williams Record.</p>

<p>Princeton University is actively reducing the number of A’s it hands out each year to assure that grades given out reflect accurately the work done by students. “If we’re giving them the same grades for their very best work as for their good work, we’re not giving them well-calibrated guidance,” Dean Nancy Malkiel told The New York Times. </p>

<p>Princeton is encouraging other Ivy League schools to follow their example. Their preliminary survey uncovered that of the grades awarded to undergraduates at eight Ivy League schools – Stanford, University of Chicago and MIT – 44-55 percent are A’s. Before the policy was implemented, the median overall grade for Princeton students was a 3.46, which lies between a B+ and an A-. </p>

<p>-<a href="http://www.williamsrecord.com/wr/?view=article&section=news&id=7171"&gt;http://www.williamsrecord.com/wr/?view=article&section=news&id=7171&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>No, that was over 90% graduating cum laude - "with honors", not with all As or nearly all As. But, Harvard definitely has had grade inflation over the years. Currently it's functional grade scale for most of the students in any given class is B+, B, B-. To get an A is still a good achievement - you have to work very hard. If you really didn't do very well at all you get a C.</p>

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<p>stanford, all ivies but cornell</p>