Do admissions officers know about Cal's grade deflation?

g0ld3n
Fri, 22 Apr 2011 20:46:00 +0000

I have a problem with how grade inflation is being characterized in this thread. People are merely showing an upward trend and calling it inflation. While yes, literally speaking that is the denotative definition of inflation (an increase), you are forgetting that that still means nothing because Berkeley has upped its selectivity at a much more rapid rate than CSUs and other colleges you are comparing the GPA rise to. They are plucking much more intelligent students and it’s selectively harder to get in while we are not measuring if the difficulty is rising at the same rate or not. You guys are merely observing a GPA rise which could be due to other variables. In which case, connotatively speaking, there is no grade inflation per say (at least not the popular definition).