Worried about Pre-Med at MIT :(

collegealum314
Sun, 06 Feb 2011 01:20:26 +0000

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?

Yes, and sometimes it’s a lot less than that, like 15%. The mean was the B/C line or slightly above (60% got B or above) in my major classes. Or at least that’s what it was like 10 years ago.
At some peer schools it’s like half A’s, half B’s. You don’t see that at MIT, except in some humanities classes.