<p>My apologies! It turns out UC Davis is one of the schools that we are missing data for.</p>
<p>1.) As a general trend, my assertion was correct. More selective schools do give out higher GPAs, but that higher GPA is vastly outweighed by their greater selectivity. The same student body would, on average, earn a much lower GPA at a more selective institution. The “hardest” schools, as calculated numerically, are not state schools, but places like MIT, Penn, and – yes – Harvard.</p>
<p>2.) There are exceptions, however. Notice UC Irvine is deeply “deflated” on the list of schools (see below) – more so than Princeton, Williams, and even the University of Chicago.</p>
<p>3.) Davis might be one of the exceptions! We didn’t have the raw data available to calculate it, so it is not safe for me to extrapolate it too far.</p>
<p>4.) Just to repeat, these numbers are from students applying to law schools. Sadly the AAMC doesn’t publish the medical school numbers.</p>
<p>5.) Methodology: the LSAC publishes mean LSAT scores and GPAs among pre-law students. This allowed us to calculate a “corrected mean GPA” for each school – that is, if you correct for academic talent as measured by the LSAT, what would the mean GPA be? We then standardized this total around the mean, so that the output is a “z-score” – that is, it’s so-many standard deviations below average. For example, MIT is 2.64 standard deviations harder than the Tufts, which is about the national average. (Some schools are listed twice because multiple years were included.)</p>
<p>Results and Methodology in posts 29 and 30 here:
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