Even UVA experiencing grade inflation

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.29news.com/2026/03/12/uva-grade-point-averages-tick-up-following-nationwide-trend/

The student newspaper the Cavalier Daily found data from UVA’s Office of Institutional Research and Analytics that shows undergraduate GPA’s have increased from 3.24 to 3.61 over the past 15 years.

It makes sense. UVA attracts very smart students who are going to excel in school. It's not like there needs to be some arbitrary bell curve in which the top grades are rationed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is that grade inflation? Maybe the students are smarter and working harder.

+1

The quality of students is improving.

Yeah, no, I don’t think that’s it. Cheating is rampant and the notion of honor is all but dead. Faculty morale is in the gutter and they just don’t give af anymore.

Do you have evidence for this or are you just making shit up?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.29news.com/2026/03/12/uva-grade-point-averages-tick-up-following-nationwide-trend/

The student newspaper the Cavalier Daily found data from UVA’s Office of Institutional Research and Analytics that shows undergraduate GPA’s have increased from 3.24 to 3.61 over the past 15 years.

It makes sense. UVA attracts very smart students who are going to excel in school. It's not like there needs to be some arbitrary bell curve in which the top grades are rationed.

UVA attracts students who got higher grades in high school than prior generations because of grade inflation in high school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The SEC is crazy. I was looking at the honor rolls for South Carolina and like 90% of the school is on it with something like 10K students having a perfect 4.0. It's absurd.

!!!! good grief

Literally the only ones not on it are in a continual drunken stupor. I don't know how anyone goes on to medical or law school when there is no differentiation in grades.

MCAT and LSAT are great differentiators. That's why test optional for college is a joke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.29news.com/2026/03/12/uva-grade-point-averages-tick-up-following-nationwide-trend/

The student newspaper the Cavalier Daily found data from UVA’s Office of Institutional Research and Analytics that shows undergraduate GPA’s have increased from 3.24 to 3.61 over the past 15 years.

It makes sense. UVA attracts very smart students who are going to excel in school. It's not like there needs to be some arbitrary bell curve in which the top grades are rationed.

UVA attracts students who got higher grades in high school than prior generations because of grade inflation in high school.

There's more to being accepted to UVA than the transcript, silly. UVA's track record speaks for itself.

It seems like you have some sour grapes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.29news.com/2026/03/12/uva-grade-point-averages-tick-up-following-nationwide-trend/

The student newspaper the Cavalier Daily found data from UVA’s Office of Institutional Research and Analytics that shows undergraduate GPA’s have increased from 3.24 to 3.61 over the past 15 years.

It makes sense. UVA attracts very smart students who are going to excel in school. It's not like there needs to be some arbitrary bell curve in which the top grades are rationed.

UVA attracts students who got higher grades in high school than prior generations because of grade inflation in high school.

There's more to being accepted to UVA than the transcript, silly. UVA's track record speaks for itself.

It seems like you have some sour grapes.

I have no sour grapes. I just don't know why people can't admit, based on overwhelming evidence, that there is major grade inflation both at the high school and college level.

[Anonymous]

wow smart kids getting good grades...shock

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous]My freshman turned down 2 Ivies for UVA. Her roommate turned down one. Almost every OOS kid they know was their respective school's valedictorian. They all took 10-15 APs in high school and never got less than an A.
I'm not sure why OP thinks they should now be graded to an average of a B- (3.1). Especially when places like Harvard have an average of a 3.9.
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Sure but there are also many Ivy reject and relatively dumb kids at UVA. These people who got into top schools and chose the worse option have been a thing forever.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I also want to add that getting into a top school back then was much easier - you were looking at admissions rates of maybe 20-30% at Ivies back then. The kids getting into these schools today are much stronger and smarter.

Kids in college study less than they did in the past a get higher grades across the board.

Sounds like they’re smarter, or at least know how to study better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I also want to add that getting into a top school back then was much easier - you were looking at admissions rates of maybe 20-30% at Ivies back then. The kids getting into these schools today are much stronger and smarter.

Kids in college study less than they did in the past a get higher grades across the board.

Sounds like they’re smarter, or at least know how to study better.

This is something a dumb person would say.

[Anonymous]

Folks don't underestimate your own children. My kids (and yours) are just smarter than you (and me).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is that grade inflation? Maybe the students are smarter and working harder.

+1

The quality of students is improving.

Yeah, no, I don’t think that’s it. Cheating is rampant and the notion of honor is all but dead. Faculty morale is in the gutter and they just don’t give af anymore.

100%.

Students are woefully unprepared and faculty can do very little about the fact that students can’t read, do math, or even sit through a film.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I also want to add that getting into a top school back then was much easier - you were looking at admissions rates of maybe 20-30% at Ivies back then. The kids getting into these schools today are much stronger and smarter.

Kids in college study less than they did in the past a get higher grades across the board.

Sounds like they’re smarter, or at least know how to study better.

This is something a dumb person would say.

Believing studying more leads to better grades is pretty stupid in itself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:wow smart kids getting good grades...shock

Are kids getting smarter everywhere in high school and college and therefore getting higher grades everywhere?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:wow smart kids getting good grades...shock

Are kids getting smarter everywhere in high school and college and therefore getting higher grades everywhere?

Can’t you just feel all the smartness all around? It’s a new age of widespread intelligence.