<p>I know it’s very difficult to compare a GPA from one college to a GPA in another, but what would a 3.95 grade point average (with a major in philosophy) at the University of Connecticut be in institutions like Yale or Harvard?</p>
<p>I think it is pretty much equivalent. It depends on the classes you are taking. If you are loading your schedule with easy courses, then you can have a GPA like that in any university.</p>
<p>Pretty much. There’s nothing magical about haaahvad that makes its biology 200 class any different from umass dartmouth.</p>
<p>Umm, no. It is much more difficult to get a high GPA at a top private institution than at any public institution. Even with the grade inflation at schools like Harvard, to suggest that the average Harvard student would get a 3.4-ish at a public institution (getting more Bs than As) is simply ridiculous.</p>
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I disagree. I think that, even despite any grade inflation, the reason that the average GPA at top schools tends to be higher is that the students at those schools are more capable of getting a high GPA. Someone with a high GPA at Harvard would get a high GPA at a public school; and someone with a high GPA at a public school could probably get a high GPA at a top private school. The same goes for people with lower GPAs; somebody with a 3.4 at Harvard is not going to get a 3.7 or 3.8 at a public school. The difference due to difficulty (which is not even that different most of the time) probably does not account for more than 0.2 grade points in either direction.</p>