<p>“More importantly, if you really think the average GPA of an institution is the sole variable in whether those undergraduates will be successful post-graduation you really don’t understand who admission to medical / law / graduate (etc.) school works.”</p>
<p>Graduate schools are often rankings hungry…US news business/law/medical rankings incorporate average GPA into the rankings. It doesn’t matter if a student went to JHU or Iowa…schools prefer to not pull down rankings with low stats, even if they are understandable due to grade deflation. I think the tone of that post was unnecessarily arrogant and dismissive of criticism of JHU. Maybe you are the one who doesn’t understand how grad schools admissions work?</p>