<p>There are a lot of good rhetorical arguments to make against grade deflation being a problem, but here’s an interesting point:
[schools</a>’ mean LSAT](<a href=“schools' mean LSAT Forum - Top Law Schools”>schools' mean LSAT Forum - Top Law Schools)</p>
<p>Btw, Brown’s median LSAT is 166.</p>
<p>So Brown and Harvard, two places with “notorious grade inflation” also have two of the highest, if not the highest, median LSAT scores in addition to having students with higher GPA.</p>
<p>Does that mean their GPAs are still artificially high, or are does that mean that perhaps it is relfective of higher average achievement in those courses?</p>
<p>I think the smart answer is there’s little evidence to support either, so judging schools on inflation or deflation is kind of a mess. Brown’s structure (fair amount of courses mandatory pass/fail and taken pass/fail, no pluses or minuses) drastically changes how GPA works here (in fact, the university doesn’t officially recognize GPA as a metric) so it makes it hard to compare to other schools.</p>