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<p>You haven’t seen McGill; 85 is the interface between an A- and an A there. Yet McGill faces no accusations of grade inflation whatsoever. Presumably a school that can afford to put 85 as the bar for an A is a tough school, perhaps even tougher than Tufts (which already is nicknamed Toughs somewhere)</p>
<p>I, myself, attend a college where 85 is the minimum number grade that qualifies for an A (90%+ qualifies for A+s) and, as per a Tufts physics professor, a 3.7 in physics from my current college is worth about the same as a 3.7 in physics from Tufts, even accounting for A+s worth 4.3 (said professor attended my current college as an undergrad, physics-mathematics dual major too)</p>