<p>Let me add one bit of info relevant to med school admissions:</p>
<p>There seems to be some sort of myth bordering on urban legend that Chicago GPAs are lower. Even Idad, in his link above, refers to a 3.25 GPA, but in a different context. And some folks cite a dated, poorly sourced source from Gradeinflation.com, to make matters worse.</p>
<p>Well, to deal with real data, based on my own count from the commencement program last June, about 2/3 of last June’s graduates graduated with honors. I leave it to the rest of you to put the rest of the puzzle together, but I will give you a hint: The average GPA must be quite a bit higher than 3.25. Put another way, the person with a 3.25 GPA struggling to get into Med schoo should be struggling, because they are somewhere down in the botton 1/3 or 1/4 (maybe lower?) of the U. Chicago GPA distribution.</p>