<p>What grade deflation?</p>
<p>UChicago’s average GPA was 3.26 10 years ago. It’s probably in the 3.3-3.4 range now, like every other top school.</p>
<p>[University</a> of Chicago GPA Trends](<a href=“http://www.gradeinflation.com/chicago.html]University”>http://www.gradeinflation.com/chicago.html)</p>
<p>People at UChicago, WashU, MIT, Cornell whine about how their schools are more difficult than other top schools (like Stanford or Harvard) but there is zero data that I’ve seen that actually supports any of those claims. The hard data on Cornell and MIT are available online. Outside of freshman year, nearly 40% of the grades given out at MIT are A’s. The median grades for Cornell is available online as well. The point of all of my posts is to find actual data instead of just parroting what the students complain about. The only difference b/w Cornell/UChicago/Hopkins students and Stanford/Yale/Harvard students is that the former is a group of whiners. Wait until they get to med school and find out med school is 4x tougher than the “grinding academics” they had in college.</p>