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Is this the report from the college of Letters and sciences, or from all the colleges on campus?
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<p>I cited the source. It appears to be all of UCB, not just L&S</p>
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Did you take into account the difference in SAT gathering between the two schools (best combined vs. best single sitting)?
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<p>Both sets of SAT scores were drawn from the common data sets. This has nothing to do with how the college uses SAT scores for admissions purposes, it simply reports the SAT scores of the people who end up there. Therefore, they are comparable.</p>
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We know that the distribution of grades at both colleges is remarkably similar,
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<p>See the discussion above. I am citing the distribution of grades as reported at UCB and at Princeton, which reported its grade distribution. By "distribution" I mean the proportion of grades that were A's, B's, etc. Both UCB and Princeton reported 85% A's or B's. Princeton reported under 2% D's and F's. UCB reported "less than 5%" D's and F's.</p>
<p>One of the problems with grade inflation.com is the age of some of the data. Given that it shows rising grades over time, at different rates in different colleges, comparing old data from different times can be confusing.</p>
<p>What was "remarkable" was the nearly identical number of A's and B's between two places, one of which apparently has a reputation for "grade inflation" and the other of which apparently has a reputation for "tough grading". </p>
<p>I agree one would love to compare SAT II's, AP's, etc. However, I don't know of any source of this data. SAT I data is available so that is what I used. SAT I data also correlates highly with these other measures (approximately 0.84 between SAT I and SAT II), so I doubt that adding them would change much (<a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/research/pdf/rdreport200_3920.pdf)%5B/url%5D">http://www.collegeboard.com/research/pdf/rdreport200_3920.pdf)</a>. See the references on grade prediction I cited above. If you have access to data on AP's or other items, please contribute it to the discussion.</p>
<p>What is really remarkable is that nearly every elite college, public or private, has an average GPA in the range between a B+ and an A-. This is without any formal policy within most colleges, let alone across colleges. This suggests that the top colleges gravitate towards this as their norm, and ignore differences in the entering qualifications among their students.</p>