MIT vs. Princeton Pre-med (grade inflation)

Weasel8488
Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:27:36 +0000

If I let you hang out with a physics major from Princeton and a physics major from Cal Tech, I think you will be able to guess which is which.



I know many from both schools, and I can’t tell the difference. I get your point (there’s definitely a difference in the engineering majors), but this wasn’t a very good example.



…except I’m not sure 50 points on the SAT makes much of a difference when you are already talking about high SAT scores.



I know many students from WashU and Emory (but not Northwestern), and in most cases I can tell a difference between their intelligence and the intelligence of the average student at Princeton. I’ve known these students in an academic setting since before they applied to colleges, so I don’t have some sort of subconscious bias.