Worried about Pre-Med at MIT :(

Jalmoreno
Sun, 06 Feb 2011 01:12:11 +0000

Really? From what my friend tells me (she is currently at MIT, I may possibly be joining her next year) it seems like the grade deflation, or at least the grading curve, isn’t that bad (her claim was that “unlike somewhere like Cornell, at MIT you don’t feel that you need to kill your classmates to get a good grade.”) However, it is probably true that its peers are inflated, hence, relatively, it is deflated (though, I think there should be a different term for this because that’s not how I define inflation/deflation, maybe grade-exchange-rate or grade-equivalence-rate or something to that effect).

BTW, to get a frame of reference, at Princeton the grade-deflation policy is to reduce A’s per department to under 35% of grades given, does MIT award less As than that?