<p>FYI:
— Apparently Dartmouth indicates the course’s median grade on students’ transcripts to combat grade inflation. One can have a kickass GPA (say 3.7) but an awful transcript. Imagine the median grade for a course is 95…and you get a 90. What does that say about you? Thus, either professors there are encouraged to keep median grades down so as to not make the course seem silly or students have weird looking (in a negative way) transcripts.
— Cornell used to publish median grades as well…however they’re not exactly known for easy grading anyways.
— Finally, Yale will be considering sweeping grading policy changes in the fall. Maybe they’ll institute the median publishing policy or institute some guidelines to limit the number of A’s. I doubt Salovey and the other admins want Yale to be known as an “easy school” but with 62 percent of grades being A’s…</p>
<p>And that’s just the Ivy League. Princeton’s grading policies are no harsher than those in place at MIT, UChicago, Caltech, Berkeley…etc. If you want to go to college to learn and develop academically you won’t let sensationalized viewpoints of Princeton’s grading policy get in your way.</p>