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<p>Source please? </p>
<p>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.</p>
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<p>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:</p>
<p>‘Students at Cal are GENERALLY less smart then grade-inflated HYSP kids and so would naturally get lower grades.’</p>
<p>I fixed it for you.</p>
<p>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”…</p>