<p>Also, remember that the president who oversaw the installment of grade deflation (it was mostly the dean’s work though) was Shirley Tilghman, a science person through and through (Mol Bio professor). Thus, the argument that grade deflation is actually GRADE EQUALITY makes sense. Now, engineers have the same average GPAs as history majors. Now, as a STEM major, I have a decent shot at getting into PBK (honor society for top ten percent GPA) whereas in the past my departments average GPA would be significantly lower than that of a history major’s GPA. This is what’s happening at, for example, Yale. Yale’s STEM majors have average GPAs that are much lower than those of their humanities majors (say 3.3 vs 3.9) and as such it is unfair for STEM majors. That’s not the case at Princeton.</p>