Dillema: Stern's Grading Curve!

z_ambition
Sun, 09 Apr 2006 15:56:14 +0000

You arbitrarily assign a conversion factor from UT BHP gpa to NYU Stern gpa. The difference could very well be .1, .2, or even 0 and then your argument that graduate schools will take the UT student would fall. Point being you have no evidence to make such an equivalency.

Second, I don’t know why you think graduate schools don’t weigh in the relative difficulties of attaining GPAs at various schools. Just as undergraduate adcoms will know the comparative difficulties of attaining the same gpa at a school like Exeter as compared to a public school in the middle of Kansas.

Think about it; if the APPLICANTS know about the relative difference in GPAs between two programs, don’t you think that the admissions officers would know too since, you know, they’re paid to make decisions on such factors?