BU Grade Deflation is Very Real

bananafonez
Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:27:04 +0000

But if comparing everyone is so important, BUBailey, then shouldn’t all schools have the same cutoffs for ranking? If one school gives the top 20% As and another only the top 10%, then how is that meaningful in the long run? They’re not standardized, so to an outsider with no information on the school’s grading policies it’s all kinds of skewed. A student who got in the top 11% of his class would get an A at the former hypothetical school, but a B (or A- or what have you) at the second school.
Speaking of this, do grad/law/med schools actually know about BU’s deflation?