Do admissions officers know about Cal's grade deflation?

bluebayou
Fri, 22 Apr 2011 23:49:53 +0000

At Ivies for example, college will allow students to all get As if they all earn that grade.



Source please?

Hint: not true in many Ivy science classes, with perhaps the exception being Brown. Dartmouth posts its grades for all the world to see, and many large courses are ‘curved’ to a B/B-. Ditto Cornell. Sure, in theory, if everyone earned a 90+, they’d all receive A’s. But it is rather easy for the prof to make exams extremely difficult such that the mean test score is a 70/80.



This means they have LESS grade inflation than other colleges.



Perhaps true for colleges like Stanford and Yale (mean gpa 3.55). But your point falls apart with the correct logic of your concluding paragraph:

‘Students at Cal are GENERALLY less smart then grade-inflated HYSP kids and so would naturally get lower grades.’

I fixed it for you.

fwiw: Yes, I recognize that the top quartile of Cal’s Frosh class is just as good (numbers-wise) as those at HYPSM. But Cal has a huge juco transfer population, which HYPSM does not. And Cal has a huge tail in the lower quartile, which HYPSM does not. So the average student at Cal is “GENERALLY”…