College Grade Inflation

bluebayou
Fri, 28 Dec 2012 11:40:44 +0000

And yet, my current GPA is a 3.8.





I think you should be happy with the 3.8, as you beat me by .15 in the GPA department…





I’ll try to appreciate my 3.8 a bit more.



May I suggest: “tacky”, even on anonymous board? While the question is certainly worth discussing, your personal scores add zero relevance to it; an anecdote of 1 is not data. And certain things – GPA being one of them – are just not discussed at top schools.

But to answer the question: BC’s mean gpa is higher than public schools, but lower than Brown – whose isn’t – and Yale/Harvard/Stanford; probably similar to many other highly ranked private school. But the mean gpa is department specific. BC’s science departments award plenty of C’s (and lower), and classes are graded on strict curves (as are science courses at other colleges). OTOH, CSOM and Comm, hmmmm.