Do admissions officers know about Cal's grade deflation?

ucbalumnus
Sat, 23 Apr 2011 00:25:32 +0000

From [National Trends in Grade Inflation, American Colleges and Universities](http://www.gradeinflation.com) , average GPAs of large well regarded state universities:

Berkeley: 3.27 (2006, most recent listed)
Georgia Tech: 3.04 (2006), 3.07 (2008)
Illinois, Urbana Champaign: 3.1943 (2005)
Michigan, Ann Arbor: 3.25 (2006), 3.27 (2008)
North Carolina, Chapel Hill: 3.16 (2006)
Texas, Austin: 3.12 (2007)
UCLA: 3.19 (2006), 3.22 (2008)
Wisconsin, Madison: 3.21 (2006), 3.20 (2007)
Virginia: 3.213 (2006)

HYPSM and some others like them:

Harvard: 3.45 (2005)
Yale: 3.48 (2006), 3.51 (2008)
Princeton: 3.27 (2006), 3.28 (2008)
Stanford: 3.55 (2005)
MIT: 3.26 (1999)
Brown: 3.59 (2006), 3.61 (2007)
Columbia: 3.42 (2006)
Dartmouth: 3.39 (2006), 3.42 (2007)
Cornell: 3.36 (2006)
Pennsylvania: 3.44 (2004)

Others:

California community colleges: 2.70 (2006)
Fresno State: 2.84 (2006), 2.85 (2008)
Sacramento State: 2.86 (2006)
San Jose State: 2.79 (2006), 2.85 (2008)
UC Irvine: 2.98 (2006 and 2008)
UC San Diego: 3.01 (2006), 3.02 (2008)
UC Santa Barbara: 3.02 (2006)
USC: 3.12 (2004), 3.25 (2009)

Possible high grade inflation relative to student body:

Arizona: 3.10 (1998)
Eastern Oregon: 3.13 (2000)
Kansas: 3.16 (2004)
Missouri State: 3.20 (2006)
Montana State: 3.15 (2005)
Southern Utah: 3.21 (2006), 3.24 (2008)
Western Michigan: 3.13 (2006), 3.11 (2007)
Western Washington: 3.14 (2004)
Wisconsin, Green Bay: 3.27 (2007)
Wisconsin, La Crosse: 3.21 (2005)