<p>I have no idea. Please let me know.</p>
<p>Like I promised, here is what I found:</p>
<p>Boston College
"MEDIAN GPA BY CLASS: Murphy stated that over the last decade the median “GPA for all undergraduates went up and that for every year the spring median GPA was higher than the fall median GPA. He added that, by the spring of 2003, half of all seniors received a GPA higher than 3.5 for courses taken in that semester…Michael Connolly commented that this might result from students in two semester long courses usually receiving higher grades for the second semester. Dean Quinn noted that, in the case of seniors who might be taking only courses in their major and doing a senior thesis, we would expect them to be doing their best work and receiving their highest grades.”</p>
<p>“AVERAGE GPA BY CLASS: Murphy stated that from 1993 to 2003 the average GPA for all undergraduates had gone up though more slowly than the median. He added that he thought the median a more useful indicator than the average.”</p>
<p>SURVEY OF OTHER SCHOOLS.</p>
<p>Murphy stated that the subcommittee had received 10 responses to a questionnaire concerning the issue of grade inflation sent to the member schools of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. He summarized the responses as follows:</p>
<pre><code>* All responding schools showed GPA increases, though in varying amounts, and reported there was some concern on their campus over the issue.
- A few schools reported having formed committees to assess the issue and listed suggested measures such as �narrative� grading, reporting course averages alongside a student�s grades on transcripts, and reporting information on grading patterns to departments and individual faculty.
*** Several schools noted the rise in their GPAs was accompanied by rising SAT scores.**
*** Some schools attributed the rise to the pressure for higher grades by students applying to professional schools.** - Four schools noted that some questions concerning expected grades were included on student course evaluations.
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<p>[College</a> of Arts and Sciences](<a href=“http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/meta-elements/html/epc_feb_18_04.htm]College”>http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/meta-elements/html/epc_feb_18_04.htm)</p>
<p>At another meeting later on that year:
“He added that the rise in figures like the median GPA followed almost exactly the rise in quality of the undergraduates over the past decade and a half. �Joe Quinn stated that the problem was not really inflation but compression resulting in the loss of the ability to make distinctions among students.”
[College</a> of Arts and Sciences](<a href=“http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/meta-elements/html/epc_oct_14_04.htm]College”>http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/meta-elements/html/epc_oct_14_04.htm)</p>
<p>From other schools:
“Stories about easy As began to surface in the early 1990s: the average GPA at Stanford climbed from 3.04 in 1968 to 3.44 in 1992; between 1984 and 1999 the percentage of A and A– grades at Georgetown jumped from 28 percent to 46 percent; and a study of 34 colleges by a Duke professor revealed that between 1992 and 2002 the average GPA at private colleges went from 3.11 to 3.26.”
[ibid]</p>
<p>Reddune, the article states that the average GPA of a BU undergraduate is 3.04, but it doesn’t say anything about the average GPA of BC undergraduate, though it can be deduced it is lower than 3.5. It’s still a good article. Thanks</p>