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<p>Depends on the liberal art that is one’s major. Physics, statistics, (applied) math, and economics majors tend to have better job and career prospects at graduation than biology, chemistry, English, and history majors.</p>
<p>Also, most of those graduating with bachelor’s degrees do not go to graduate school.</p>
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<p>Perhaps you are referring specifically to medical and law schools (as opposed to PhD programs in academic subjects) with this assumption? In any case, note that the more selective schools tend to have higher [grade</a> inflation](<a href=“http://www.gradeinflation.com%5Dgrade”>http://www.gradeinflation.com), so it is not necessarily true that going to a more selective school will result in a lower GPA (though there are a few not very selective schools with high grade inflation that may be attractive to those trying to game the medical and law school admissions practices).</p>