do liberal arts colleges deflate grades?

monstor344
Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:04:28 +0000

Anyway, it is really useless to have a high GPA from a school that inflates grades, and a relatively lower MCAT, GMAT, LSAT, etc.



If one med school applicant has a 3.9 GPA from Harvard and a perfect LSAT, and a second applicant has a 3.5 GPA from MIT and a perfect LSAT, which student is the med school more likely to accept? Will he accept the second student because Harvard is notorious for inflation and its likely that the MIT student worked harder for his GPA than the Harvard student? I doubt it.

The fact is that grade deflation does hurt admissions into professional schools.