<p>Which Top 30 Universities are friendlier to maintain moderate to high GPA?</p>
<p>Can anyone offer any recommendations? I have heard that it is a nightmare to maintain a high GPA at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. I am looking at other universities to maintain a decent GPA including the following: </p>
<p>U Penn
Columbia
Cornell
Vanderbilt
Rice
Dartmouth
Newton Univ.
Georgetown Univ
Duke
Emory Univ.
Cal Tech</p>
<p>I have not heard, not even once, that it was relatively easy to get a high GPA at Caltech (though I do not know this as fact from such things as ‘data’).</p>
<p>Newton University???</p>
<p>[National</a> Trends in Grade Inflation, American Colleges and Universities](<a href=“http://gradeinflation.com/]National”>http://gradeinflation.com/)</p>
<p>At the bottom it has a link to each university’s average GPA given.</p>
<p>From the results, it looks like it is relatively easy to earn a high GPA at Yale and Harvard</p>
<p>Maxellis, you are great.</p>
<p>tomofboston - I am perplexed? What the heck is that, Newton Univ? wrong cut and paste dude.</p>
<p>There is no such school as Newton University. You listed it.</p>
<p>OP, be careful not to conclulde that because a school has a higher average gpa, that YOU will find your GPA higher there than at another school with lower average gpa.</p>
<p>I would suspect that if a Yale admittee (ave. gpa 3.4) instead attended a California Community College, whose ave. GPA is 2.7, that that INDIVIDUAL would have no problem exceeding the 3.4 he/she might have expected, on average, at Yale.</p>
<p>I am sure there are correcting factors somewhere, like this:</p>
<p>Given a student who graduated top 1% from a competitive high school, with good work ethic, and SAT scores of 1485 (Yale’s average), such a student might expect to perform thusly in college:</p>
<p>Yale: 3.4 (at the school average)
UC Berkeley: 3.4 (.2 above the 3.2 school average)
Santa Monica College: 3.8 (one professor was simply nuts)</p>
<p>and so on.</p>
<p>An argument can me made that among the top 50 ranked Universities, it doesn’t matter in terms of GPA where this student attends… he/she will likely get 3.4 wherever he/she matriculates. Higher ave. GPA but stiffer competition at Yale, lower ave. gpa but slightly lower competition at Berkeley, and so on.</p>
<p>Folks, it would make more sense to compare the SAT Score change and GPA change over the course of time and ascertain some value and rank the schools with inflated GPA. Maxellis link was the best. It shows the data. But we need to tie the SAT data and GPA data on a spreadsheet and infer who is the best inflater.</p>
<p>“tomofboston - I am perplexed? What the heck is that, Newton Univ? wrong cut and paste dude.”
■■■■■, are u for real?</p>
<p>A waste of bandwidth. What makes you think anyone looking at grades from schools such as grad schools does not know about grading patterns at schools? There is something sour and anti education about the entire idea.</p>