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<p>It was evidence against 60% As and Bs being standard.</p>
<p>It’s also skewed to the high end within ranges. The last average I remember seeing was 3.57. Don’t remember where I saw it. Definitely wouldn’t be difficult to find if someone wanted to dig into but- but I imagine it’s still close to a 3.6, evidence of the skewness.</p>
<p>bearcats and Giants, all I can say is that I hope you are right. Grade inflation is a good thing, particularly when the concentration of top students is so high (Ross, Honors etc…). Harvard and Stanford have been inflating grades for a long time and look at their graduate school placement rates. </p>
<p>This said, I have not seen evidence of such extreme grade inflation at Ross…nor have I seen such major grade deflation at Wharton. I have witnessed deflation at Haas and Stern though.</p>
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<p>Yep. That’s why they do it. Grade inflation is pretty ridiculous in a lot of places.</p>
<p>as someone who reviewed resume books and made internship interview selections just this past week for one of the types of internship positions that >2/3 of ross students apply for (top investment bank), it definitely seems like 3.5-3.7 is the average. <3.3 gpas are actually really rare, though there could be some selection bias there (ie all the <3.3’s didn’t bother applying). </p>
<p>3.9+ gpas are also pretty rare though, for what its worth, a lot of the times if, when reviewing resumes, we saw a 3.9+ who didn’t have some sort of double major we just assumed they loaded up their electives with guaranteed a+ classes (and trust me, everyone at ross knows what those are).</p>
<p>For better or worse, grades are really clumped together at ross. What this means is that gpa plays little role in whether or not you end up getting interviews at top firms, or at least at my firm, as long as you meet the minimum cutoff (which is more like 3.6 at ross, though we are much more forgiving to ppl within things like math double majors, etc). Most of the time what interview selections came down to was internship experience, whether anyone on the recruiting team knew the candidate (though sometimes that can be a bad thing), and our interactions with people at things like networking events.</p>
<p>On another note, I’ve also seen the resume books we got from wharton and some of the caliber of candidates that didn’t even get interviews. Trust me, at least at my firm, it is much easier to get an interview at ross. Competition there is crazy - some people who didn’t get interviews would’ve been one of the top candidates in the ross pool.</p>
<p>umich, your firm my not adjust for the difference in grade inflation (if indeed there is such a difference), but overall, the majority of the main firms still recruit more students from Wharton than from Ross, so there aparently are not fooled by it.</p>
<p>oh yeah, for sure. we recruit somewhere between 2-4 times as many wharton kids as michigan kids, depending on the year. in spite of that, i still stand by my statement that an equally qualified student would have had an easier time getting an interview from ross. Obviously though, not all firms that recruit at wharton also recruit at ross, so there is that element when it comes to getting a job out of school - this really only applies to my firm specifically, and only to one data point (2011 summer analyst positions). </p>
<p>I will say, though, one of my best friends from high school went to wharton the same year as me, had a much better resume than me going into summer analyst recruiting, and i got way more interviews than him at top banks. Again, just one data point. The point is, all the top banks (or at least, most) recruit at michigan, but compared to wharton the classes are easier, classmates are way less competitive (not even the biggest michigan homer should dispute that), and you have way fewer well-connected “relationship hires” fluffing up the recruitment numbers than you have at wharton. Plus, the school’s a hell of a lot more fun.</p>
<p>each school’s basically allocated a set number of interview slots, and then alumni for those schools pick who gets interviews. “adjusting for grade inflation” isn’t necessarily the right way to think about it since, as long as your school is on our list of core recruiting schools, you’re really only competing against classmates and selections are basically made by alumni.</p>
<p>the list of “core schools” and the extent to which we interview at those schools really just comes down to a combination of alumni at senior levels and past recruiting experience with those schools (ie did the analysts we hired in past do well or not)</p>
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<p>Very true.</p>
<p>you guys corrupted this thread, answer the OPs question</p>