<p>see topic... this would be a big help for me...</p>
<p>Chicago, Swarthmore and Reed have some pretty nasty deflation</p>
<p>I have heard Boston University is notorious for grade deflation</p>
<p>Harvard and Stanford lead the grade-inflated school list, IMO.</p>
<p>Princeton deflates. Boo.</p>
<p>Inflation: Harvard, Stanford, Brown among the top schools.</p>
<p>Deflation: Chicago, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, Swarthmore, Reed, Wake Forest, Davidson amongst others.</p>
<p>What top schools would you say don't really deflate or inflate, but pretty much give you what you deserve? I've posted about grade inflation before (largely because my high school has a lot of grade deflation), but I'd really like a school where you get an A if you really deserve an A (without having to pull off hurculean feats, like what seems to be required at some schools) and you get a B if you really deserve a B. Any schools like that come to mind?</p>
<p>What would you say about Dartmouth in this regard? I asked about its grade inflation/deflation before, and got some very good responses. From these responses, I infered that Dartmouth is more or less an A/B school, and maybe inflated in this regard, but still really challenges its students and doesn't let them walk away with a 4.0 just for showing up. It seems to strike a nice balance between inflation and deflation. Any thoughts on this?</p>
<p>can someone please prove to me that harvard has grade inflation and swarthmore has grade deflation? last time i check most of these schools have average gpas around 3.1/3.2. </p>
<p>and no, anecdotel evidence of "anywhere else it would have been an A" or "my dad donated $1,000,000 so i had a 4.0" doesn't count as proof.</p>
<p>jags861, at Harvard in the 2003 school year the average GPA was 3.41 and this was after a massive attempt to bring their grades down and roughly half the grades received at Harvard are A's. In 2001 over 90% of Harvard kids graduated with latin honors, but this was brought down to "only" 60% after criticism.<br>
This can be found in this article about inflation from the U fo Chicago:
<a href="http://maroon.uchicago.edu/news/articles/2005/01/18/gpas_get_a_76_boost_.php%5B/url%5D">http://maroon.uchicago.edu/news/articles/2005/01/18/gpas_get_a_76_boost_.php</a></p>
<p>While average GPAs are around 3.2 at Wake the average GPA is 2.8, which is a bit of a difference.</p>
<p>"Princeton deflates. Boo."</p>
<p>Ummm, Priceton inflates grades like they're Helium balloons.</p>
<p>I read somewhere that the avg gpa at Cornell is a 3.35, right around Dartmouth, Columbia, Penn, etc.</p>
<p>^ No, currently Princeton deflates. There's been massive uproar about this on campus.</p>
<p>jags;</p>
<p>marite, one of the most knowledgeable parents on cc, and who has a son in Cambridge, has posted that H awards "Gentlemenly" A minuses. Heck, if you search the Boston Globe archives, you'll find an article (now several years old) that reported that more than 85% of H students graduate with honors. (If that ain't grade inflation, I don't know what is....)</p>
<p>re: P'ton....the Presidential directive is to cap A's at no more than 35% per class -- it used to be 45+%...</p>
<p>I've always heard that Harvard's grade inflation is ridiculous. In the Fiske guide, they say that the hardest thing about Harvard is getting in, and once you are in, they pretty much guide you through</p>
<p>Besides Reed(which doesn't surprise me at all, they seem like a school that would deflate), what are the reputations of other LACs?</p>
<p>There has been no grade deflation at Swarthmore. Sometimes I wonder if people even know what that term means.</p>
<p>The most recent average GPA I've seen for Swarthmore is a 3.24 GPA. That's a few years old.</p>
<p>"re: P'ton....the Presidential directive is to cap A's at no more than 35% per class "</p>
<p>Exactly...why do people think this is deflation? 35%! Damn! Lol, they're really cutting down.</p>
<p>I think what a lot of people are getting into is the relative difficulty of various school, esp when compared to others.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if PSU has grade inflation/deflation?</p>