Grade Inflation/Deflation at Cornell?

norcalguy
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:58:47 +0000

I think it’s due to laziness. At most colleges, induction into PBK requires being at the top 5% of your class or whatever and also an academic record that includes liberal arts courses (usually a foreign language requiremen as well). Since CAS students already have to take a lot of liberal arts courses (including foreign language) to graduate, all you need to do to determine PBK status is to look at their GPA. I don’t think the PBK committee wants to pour through ILR/CALS, etc. transcripts to see if they’ve taken liberal arts courses.