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<p>Yep, that is what I am asserting. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, I can’t “prove” this with data, at least not yet, specifically because MIT doesn’t publish grade data parsed by courses, the way that Dartmouth has. But I think you have admitted yourself that the Dartmouth physics and chemistry courses seem inflated. I would add, the Dartmouth engineering classes seem inflated also. Most of the engineering classes have median grades of B+ or A-, with the lowest recorded one having a median of a B? I think a lot of MIT and Caltech engineering students would LOVE to be graded in such a manner. </p>
<p>But since the data for MIT doesn’t exist publicly, I can propose a solution. We can start a similar thread in the MIT section and present the Dartmouth grading scheme to the people there, and ask them whether they think that Dartmouth is inflated relative to MIT. There are a lot of MIT students and alumni over in that section. Hence, you may be able to get a useful cross-section of opinions.</p>