Grade Deflation

Colleges & Universities Cornell University
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<p>Is there grade deflation at Cornell? Can someone elaborate on the basic system?</p>

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<p>No. Cornell is about as grade inflated/deflated as any other top school (meaning that science classes have low means/medians while humanities courses generally have high means/medians). Avg. GPA at Cornell is around 3.2.</p>

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<p>norcalguy, I have always been under the impression that Harvard, Yale, etc were the opposite of Cornell in that the science classes there are extremely difficult, but the humanities are quite difficult. A person who transfered from here to Harvard confirmed this when I spoke with him.</p>

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<p>Humanities are Cornell are difficult in comparison to Science classes at Cornell. Classes at Cornell are, in general, harder than classes elsewhere.</p>

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<p>What’s the difference between extremely difficult and quite difficult?</p>

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<p>that should have read aren’t before extremely instead of are.</p>