Grade inflation at colleges: good thing? or bad?

[bluebayou]

@blossom

So it makes nice headlines that your future neurosurgeon phoned it in as an undergrad, or that the team that designed the engine on the plane you’re flying on, or that the epidemiologist that tracks measles infections among pre-schoolers took all the courses P/F but that’s not reality. Nobody is getting into a rigorous grad program without a legitimate transcript.

Right. The only place that a high mean GPA really counts is for prelaw students, as law schools don’t care much about what’s in the transcript, just the cumulative GPA on it.

btw: since Yale College has similar grade inflation to Brown, and since Yale Law has been the #1 LS forever, and since Yale Law gives a small bump to its own College undergrads, Yale College is a no-brainer for prelaw.