Villanova vs. RPI vs. Lehigh

Magnetron
Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:11:29 +0000

Rico2, help me out here. RPI years ago had a policy of grading on a 2.7 normal curve; if you are an average RPI student (710 Math SAT for reference), your GPA will end up around a 2.7. This is not high enough to even qualify to apply to most graduate schools or to transfer to another engineering school. The term used most often was “failing in.” As of 6 years ago, that term was still common around the school.

I know a few Lehigh grads and they reported their grading policy was similar. Contrarily, the median Stanford GPA is 3.6. They assume that someone smart enough to attend Stanford should have choices for graduate school.