Why is there grade inflation?
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I find it shocking that my undergrad school made the list. Anyway, why is there grade inflation? Does the fact that those who go to a target (who already have an advantage), get the added advantage of grade inflation? Does that corrupt the recruitment process?
This is not a non-target vs. target debate, I am just referring to grade inflation and recruitment.
Imagine yourself a professor at Yale...do YOU want to be the one who fails a president's son?
GPAs are largely subjective. It really depends on the institution, area of study and how much freedom you have in choosing elective classes. I assume employers realize this but it's possible that companies that receive a lot of resumes just ding the lower grades... it's a matter of convenience.
My gf finished udergrad with a 3.9 and she's no smart cookie. I'm pursuing an MBA now and I'm sacrificing my GPA because I rather take classes such as multivariate regression analysis and modeling and simulation as electives rather than intro to marketing or management courses.
The higher the gpa of the graduating class, the better jobs they get. They then make more and donate more back to the school. I.E. money makes the world go round.
I think this is probably right. I don' think the reasoning is that professors are scared of failing students of well endowed families. It's not like Harvard hasn't been taking children of the wealthy for awhile now.
Didn't Bush and Kerry finish with C-level GPAs. I believe G.W.'s dad was the head of the CIA around that time too, so yea, doubt the professors at Yale were afraid to give mediocre grades.
The best option for the school is to give the grade and make them someone else's problem. It's wrong, and it's also not the majority of cases, but this is a factor. Imagine the politics of running a high school, and then just scale it up to the level where there's so many people that this type of thing can easily be hidden in plain sight.
This. If you follow any trail it will ALWAYS ultimately lead to this.
Princeton University has enacted a strict grade deflation policy since 2006, so it is not everywhere that private schools are more generous with A's.
Relevant article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/education/31princeton.html
Quote: "Nancy Weiss Malkiel, [former] dean of the undergraduate college at Princeton, said the policy was not meant to establish such grade quotas, but to set a goal: Over time and across all academic departments, no more than 35 percent of grades in undergraduate courses would be A-plus, A or A-minus."
I suspect this is mostly a problem with business schools. The majority of the material undergrads in business see is so easy, it's hard to not give out a ton of As. I'm at one of the schools in the tough grading category, and it's nearly impossible to find anyone here with less than a 3.0, even though that's what professors are supposed to curve to. We do have a much stronger engineering department though, and I'm guessing that's where grades are kept in line.
I blame Democrats.
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