<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>What colleges are known for inflated GPA? I'm a pre-med that has been admitted to Yale, but haven't clicked the accept button yet. Yale gave me great financial aid, but I'm worried that a top-notch school like Yale will make A's hard to come by. Is this true? And just in general, what other schools inflate grades? ...Here is my college list if I change my mind:</p>
<p>Yale (accepted EA)
Duke
UVa
JHU
Penn</p>
<p>Honestly, you should probably go to Yale. Grades and therefore grade inflation don’t matter that much in college, especially coming from such a well-known college.</p>
<p>[National</a> Trends in Grade Inflation, American Colleges and Universities](<a href=“http://www.gradeinflation.com%5DNational”>http://www.gradeinflation.com)</p>
<p>Yale has mad deflation I would think, as many elite colleges do. I do believe that med schools do take into account the actual college you come from too when they look at you undergrad GPA. All those schools you listed with the exception of UVa have some type of deflation…Duke probably suffers from it to a lesser extent than the others.</p>
<p>go to yale, great school + probably the least deflation/=deflation out of all the ones on the list and you got aid.</p>
<p>Actually, I’ve heard that ivies tend to have grade INFLATION…I don’t know if that’s true though :p</p>
<p>None of these schools are “deflated”, all have a grade inflation with Yale coming in at the top, Duke second, then Penn, and UVa, JHU at the bottom. I don’t think the difficulty is so much getting the grade once the work is done at a school like Yale, but getting the work done. I really think Yale provides and amazing education, especially in the sciences (I watched videos from their freshman organic class and it was awesome, the way they were exposed to material. In fact, we have one orgo. prof. at Emory who worked with the dude teaching it and models his exams and course content after that dude’s class). The question is, do you want an education that is fantastic and done a little different than its peers (the others are also fantastic, but I can tell that Yale teaches its sciences in a more interesting way) that will prepare you for your career in healthcare, or do you merely want the most inflated grades? Honestly, Yale provides both. However, it is known for a heavy workload so you’ll have to put in the work before they give you that grade. The others are challenging, but are not known for the work intensive schedule (they are study intensive, but not as work intensive). Given that this will be the case once you get to med. school, you should get used to such rigors now. You made it into these awesome schools, so you are clearly capable of doing it. Just go to one of these and be passionate about learning the material in your courses and work hard, and the grade will come (I just get a feeling that Yale will be better at bringing out a passion for sciences as it has, in general is a more intellectually oriented group of undergraduates that may make your pre-med experience more than just “work” and jumping through hoops and snatching opportunities to merely impress med. schools). If you are merely passionate about being pre-med, you won’t do but so well at any of these schools. Screw the inflation because all have it. Take a hard look at differences in environment and approach to teaching/coursework, then choose a school and go break a leg. Please don’t choose one of these awesome merely based upon their grading. They are probably too different to do that. The only thing they have in common is awesomeness.</p>
<p>Go to Yale. Ivy Leagues are actually those with the most grade inflation. That and Stanford.</p>
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That is not true at all. Med schools are GPA hogs and there will be many applicants from top colleges. They wouldn’t hesitate to reject a low GPA Ivy student.(That and the fact that the Ivies are actually severely grade inflated so a low GPA Ivy leaguer becomes a red flag.)</p>
<p>Unless you got into Wharton and you fancy working in IB, Yale is the obvious best choice here.</p>
<p>Rather than many of you posting opinions based on nothing (posts 4-6) you could look at the study based on ACTUAL DATA posted by UCBAlumnus in post 3. Yale has pretty high grade inflation. And I agree with RML.</p>