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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is not rampant grade inflation at Georgetown. The administration appears to be actively fighting against it. Some departments tell professors that they can only award a certain percentage of A’s, Bs, etc. to prevent inflation. On the parent FB page, it was recently posted that the[b] class average on an organic chemistry test was 53.[/b] Recently, my non-STEM student’s professor was called in by the administration for giving too many A’s on a test and the professor subsequently became a much harder grader. If you want a 4.0 GPA, Georgetown is probably not the best bet.[/quote]

That will be curved. The average of all the exams is curved to around a B+ at the end of the semester. 
Stem courses have worked like that for decades, though the average used to be curved to a B- at top schools in the early 90s.
The departments at Georgetown that have guidelines indicate that about 40-45% of grades can be A and A-. In other words, the median of B+ that other departments curve to. That is hardly deflation and is very similar wording that some of the ivies use. [/quote]

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