Which schools inflate grades the most?

Morsmordre
Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:10:45 +0000

The good graduate schools know exactly which schools have grade inflation & to what degree, so don’t think you have an advantage at a high grade inflation school.



I’d say you’re only half-right. The good professional schools (law and med) will know but won’t care. And it’s not as if the graduate programs have a table saying 3.4 at Princeton is the same as a 3.6 at Harvard.

From what I’ve heard the most grade inflated top schools are (from greatest to least):Brown, Yale, Stanford, Dartmouth, Harvard

FWIW, a lot of people say Harvard is grade-inflated, and while the average grades seem pretty high you do have to take into account the type of people who tend to attend Harvard. They have many type A “never say die” people whom you see at all these top schools but a higher proportion at Harvard. It seems pretty logical to me that Harvard students’ grades would be higher than the other students’ grades even if they all went to the same school.