BU Grade Deflation is Very Real

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Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:21:14 +0000

The grade deflation at BU is really a boon to its best students. It means that great students who go to BU instead of a top-20 school can rest assured that their transcripts will reflect the fact that the work they did as undergraduates was as good as the work going on in (larger percentages of the classes at) other places.
This in turn makes it easier to get into grad school from BU than it would be if 4.0’s were scurrying about all over the place, which raises the profile of BU and the value of all of our degrees … so I’m really not sure that anyone should complain.
Not that certain classes aren’t unfairly curved-- I’m sure that’s true.