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gthopeful-- I appreciate the comment, and that one fits into the sea of many reasons to talk about why grade inflation maybe isn't the "problem" people see it as (depends on your concept of what a grade is and means), however, when it comes down to it, most of the grade inflation exists at Brown due to no +/- and the S/NC grade option under which 1/5 of our classes are taken pass/fail. If you assume that even only 25% of those people would have earned Cs, 50% would have earned Bs, and 25% As, you end up with an average GPA around that of our peers (it recovers something like 60-70% of the .2 tenths we're off from our peers).
That being said, the entire concept is strange because Brown doesn't calculate GPA.
That also being said, that doesn't really make Brown a diploma mill, suggesting that 1) It's much easier to get a diploma and 2) That it is a systematic process and 3) That students go to Brown to go in the factory one way and come out the other side with their diploma and that's it. All three would be a gross mischaracterization which is why I'm wondering what is meant by that comment.
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