Rate my college please?

rupertbrooke
Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:46:33 +0000

The rather inconvenient fact, of course, is that you get a lower GPA at a grade-deflated school for the same amount of work; rather, you get a lower GPA for a much greater amount of work.

The natural instinct when getting crappy marks is to work harder; the marks you actually end up getting, in the end, reflects that.

So it’s actually a mud sandwich both ways; you work harder, and get crappier marks. And no, it’s all about “comparing with peers.” A 3.2 at Duke is not going to be competitive with a 3.7 at Stanford (where marking is somewhat inflated), or a 3.7 at BC. And I have known quite a couple Merit Scholars getting brutally shafted at Duke in terms of marks, which is actually a great school. And no, just like only a minority of Duke pre-med will actually go to a top med school, so the same for finance.