What are the most DIFFICULT schools?

sakky
Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:15:18 +0000

I’d say Caltech, MIT, Chicago, Cornell, Cal and Michigan are probably the toughest in terms of grading.



I don’t know that I can agree with that. Cal is tough, but it’s not THAT tough. The average GPA at Cal was 3.10 in 1996.

http://www.gradeinflation.com/berkeley.html

I would argue that if you just want to talk about pure difficulty of grading, you would have to talk about places like Georgia Tech, Texas, North Carolina (surprisingly), Ohio State

http://www.gradeinflation.com/gtech.html
http://www.gradeinflation.com/texas.html
http://www.gradeinflation.com/ohiostate.html
http://www.gradeinflation.com/carolina.html

Now, you might reply that while these schools might have hard grading, they also have lower-quality student bodies which acts as a compensating factor. To that I would say that while that’s true, I would argue that MIT and Caltech are then, frankly, on an entirely different plane than are Cal and Michigan. Let’s face it. The average MIT or Caltech student is of significantly higher quality than is the average Cal or Michigan student.