<p>ucsd<em>ucla</em>dad, graduate schools consider and value more highly many other factors in admittance than grades (although they play an important role, in some fields far more than others). Because departments generally receive students who majored in the same field (or broad discipline, such as humanities or social sciences), they’re generally familiar with grading practices. It’s the professional schools in which low grades, regardless of how or where they come about, are problematic. They rarely seem to care about differences in grading, and the two most popular (law and med) have a lovely standardized test score they highly value. Business schools care about grades much, much less than other factors.</p>
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<p>Well, lets remember that a very small sub-set of a school takes each test whereas average GPA is a function of the entire school, and that doing well on standardized testing isn’t the same thing as doing well in courses. They require different skills. Do students at the best schools often have both? Well, yes, that’s how they get into the best schools, but I don’t know if the correlation of GPA and test scores is justification for grade inflation.</p>