MIT vs. Princeton Pre-med (grade inflation)

norcalguy
Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:27:05 +0000

Compared to 99.5% of the schools out there, Princeton is not grade deflated. But, it would be unfair to expect top colleges to grade in the same way as state schools.

However, even compared with most of the top 20 colleges, I don’t think Princeton is grade deflated. Where is your evidence that Princeton is more grade deflated than Northwestern or Emory or WashU? Like I said way back in my first post on this thread, I think most top colleges grade pretty much the same (ie with a median GPA in the 3.2-3.3 range). It bothers me when kids from Princeton or Cornell or Uchicago think they somehow have it tougher than kids at other top colleges.