Are these schools known for grade deflation? CMU, Georgetown, UVA? Biochem or chem major.

[Anonymous]

DC went to a school with grade deflation. Time to have a change in scenery. College isn’t about just slaving away fro grades. Please, chime in!

[Anonymous]

I hear CMU is intense, but dunno if they have grade deflation.

[Anonymous]

CMU does

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:CMU does

Oh no! Grade deflation in every majors? Or just CS? My DC isn’t interested in CS.

[Anonymous]

No schools have grade deflation. All have grade inflation.

Are you looking to send them to a spa for four/five years?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CMU does

Oh no! Grade deflation in every majors? Or just CS? My DC isn’t interested in CS.

All math and physical sciences + engineering. CMU is on the rise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No schools have grade deflation. All have grade inflation.

Are you looking to send them to a spa for four/five years?

[Anonymous]

If the goal is graduate school, grade deflation isn't the issue. Otherwise, who cares?

[Anonymous]

Honest question — do the schools really have grade deflation or are the courses just harder than kids are used to, combined with kids being accustomed to grade inflation in HS?

[Anonymous]

At CMU, entire semester average of individual subjects 89% and 89.5%, yet the semester grade in those subjects was “B” and not even “A minus”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No schools have grade deflation. All have grade inflation.

Are you looking to send them to a spa for four/five years?

UChicago used to have grade deflation — at least when my sister went there for undergrad.

At Georgetown, in my experience, it really depended on the class and the professor. My Econ classes were very difficult. My boyfriend at the time majored in International Economics, and the upper-level Econ classes were graded on a very tough curve. My foreign language classes were also quite difficult. In contrast, I took a seminar with a very nice Jesuit who told us that as long as we participated in discussions and put effort into our final paper, he would give us an A.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At CMU, entire semester average of individual subjects 89% and 89.5%, yet the semester grade in those subjects was “B” and not even “A minus”.

So does CMU not use pluses and minuses? Just A, B, C, D, F?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No schools have grade deflation. All have grade inflation.

Are you looking to send them to a spa for four/five years?

UChicago used to have grade deflation — at least when my sister went there for undergrad.

At Georgetown, in my experience, it really depended on the class and the professor. My Econ classes were very difficult. My boyfriend at the time majored in International Economics, and the upper-level Econ classes were graded on a very tough curve. My foreign language classes were also quite difficult. In contrast, I took a seminar with a very nice Jesuit who told us that as long as we participated in discussions and put effort into our final paper, he would give us an A.

Why can’t all schools be like Brown!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No schools have grade deflation. All have grade inflation.

Are you looking to send them to a spa for four/five years?

UChicago used to have grade deflation — at least when my sister went there for undergrad.

At Georgetown, in my experience, it really depended on the class and the professor. My Econ classes were very difficult. My boyfriend at the time majored in International Economics, and the upper-level Econ classes were graded on a very tough curve. My foreign language classes were also quite difficult. In contrast, I took a seminar with a very nice Jesuit who told us that as long as we participated in discussions and put effort into our final paper, he would give us an A.

There has been an inexorable increase in average GPA at U.S. colleges and universities. Georgetown went from an average undergraduate GPA of 3.13 in 1980 to 3.54 in 2012 and may well be around 3.7 today. Chicago has no doubt had a similar increase.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No schools have grade deflation. All have grade inflation.

Are you looking to send them to a spa for four/five years?

UChicago used to have grade deflation — at least when my sister went there for undergrad.

At Georgetown, in my experience, it really depended on the class and the professor. My Econ classes were very difficult. My boyfriend at the time majored in International Economics, and the upper-level Econ classes were graded on a very tough curve. My foreign language classes were also quite difficult. In contrast, I took a seminar with a very nice Jesuit who told us that as long as we participated in discussions and put effort into our final paper, he would give us an A.

Why can’t all schools be like Brown!

Brown is running out of room on a 4.0 scale so the others are catching up.