Which colleges have the most grade inflation? (undergrad)
In high school and trying to decide on a school, don't wanna get stuck with a bad gpa. Please rank the best colleges by grade inflation, thanks!
In high school and trying to decide on a school, don't wanna get stuck with a bad gpa. Please rank the best colleges by grade inflation, thanks!
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Brown
Brown. Harvard a close second
If you're not looking for a lot of competition, I'd look at private schools. Schools like Michigan and UVA might be solid targets, but there's still a lot of competition and you might be better off at Brown like people said. On the flipside, stay away from UChicago and Princeton.
Stay away from vanderbilt? Also I heard GT grades on a curve which is bad, any other schools I should stay away from and any more options besides brown and harvard? Any non ivies with lots of grade inflation?
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UChicago, Washington University in St. Louis, MIT, and CalTech are known for grade deflation.
One thing to note is that while some schools are known for grade deflation/inflation, that isn't necessarily true for all departments. e.g. Princeton is a commonly cited example for grade deflation, but their average gpas in the humanities or even social sciences are fairly average (3.5-3.6 range) while the average gpa in natural sciences is somewhat low (3.3)
Stay away from Berkeley...
Stay away from Berkeley...
McCombs has solid inflation
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Where does wharton undergrad fall?
Very inflated grading, barring a few upper level courses. It's a running joke across the entire Penn campus how easy the Wharton courses are.
what elite LACs have grade inflation??? urgent!!!!!
Literally all of them.
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