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Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Chicago ✅
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<p>^^ I'm not surprised. On course evaluations, students self-report what grades they expect to earn in a given class, and many, many, many classes have a lot of students earning A-range grades. Then again, I've never argued that Chicago practices grade "deflation," so I guess you're not targeting me in that comment.</p>

<p>I've had a few high grades tossed at me (undeservedly) but the vast majority of the grades I've earned have been grades I felt I deserved. They're lower than my high school grades, but not by that much.</p>

<p>Maybe Chicago's grade inflation is its best kept secret? Don't you want to go to a school where people will pat you on the back for a GPA you don't deserve? ;-)</p>

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<p>gotta go to Swarthmore if you want to be humbled... A's are difficult to come by.</p>

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<p>This varies a great deal by subject. S1 reports that in one course of about 90 students the prof announced that typically about 7 A's were awarded. At Chicago, the grades are A (4.0), A- (3.75), B+ (3.3), B, B- etc. This allows a lot of wiggle room for profs to give a B+ or A-. Where grades are either A or B and the work is closer to A than to B, there may be some tendency to provide an A. Also that difference between an A & A- can add up when computing GPA, though both are probably counted as A's in the Princeton study.</p>