<p>When was this page of average GPA 3.18 posted? The Cornell Tradition (akbear’s post)
The university posted it in 2011 and continue with the same information in 2012. 2010 version of this page has a different format without GPA information.</p>
<p>Highligt from norcalguy’s
<a href=“http://www.economics.cornell.edu/bar...lation_jep.pdf[/url]”>http://www.economics.cornell.edu/bar...lation_jep.pdf</a></p>
<p>This is a study of grades in College of Arts and Sciences only.
Page 95 “…we utilize a large dataset of grades assigned in undergraduate level courses at the College of Arts and Sciences between the spring semester of 1990 and the fall semester of 2004.”</p>
<p>Page 105 What Drives Grade Inflation? (no evidence for all other explanations)</p>
<p>A second explanation for classic grade inflation is that it resulted from an improvement in the quality of students……Our analysis found some support for this explanation. University records (at the aggregate level) show that SAT scores of freshmen students entering the College of Arts and Sciences tended to increase throughout the period under investigation, and especially post–policy change.7 We also found that SAT scores have a positive and statistically significant effect on students’ course grades. Hence, the rise in the pace of classic grade inflation in the post–policy change period may at least in part be due to a faster rate of improvement in student quality.</p>