Do admissions officers know about Cal's grade deflation?

ucbalumnus
Fri, 22 Apr 2011 02:42:52 +0000

The [California community colleges](California Community Colleges) as a system have had slight grade deflation over the years. [UC Riverside](http://www.gradeinflation.com/UCriverside.html) deflated a quarter grade point from 1992 to 2000 (though no more recent data is listed). [MIT[/url] inflated until the 1970s, then had slight deflation to 1999 (no more recent data).

The [url=http://www.gradeinflation.com]various CSUs (at the bottom of the page)](MIT) and [UC Irvine](UC Irvine) have had relatively little grade inflation compared to other schools.

Of course, a high school student looking at pre-law or pre-med and does not care about anything other than a good GPA for that purpose could look in the data to see if there are any schools with relatively high average grades with relatively low student competitiveness.