Urgent: Is Davidson too hard?

Mwfan1921
Thu, 29 Oct 2020 18:50:50 +0000

hesmith96:

Obviously there are multiple, segmented markets. There is a job market broadly, though (clearly you were not an economics major) that encompasses those and forms their aggregate. Grade deflation across the board, as I mentioned before, hurts the prospects of each of the theoretical students you described. And I think in my previous post I mentioned that people with the same major often pursue different paths, so not sure what that point was. However you want to describe the prospects students face after graduation (stick to your distinction above if you like) artificially lowering grades does not help students.

Good thing Davidson publishes mean and median GPA graduating class data. Not sure I am seeing current grade deflation in these numbers.

Class of 2020: 3.484 Mean GPA/3.553 Median GPA
2019: 3.443/3.516
2018: 3.431/3.515
2017: 3.377/3.444
2016: 3.356/3.403
2015: 3.348/3.408
2014: 3.315/3.350