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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hopkins is a very difficult school, well known for grade deflation.  It should probably be higher when other schools have so much grade inflation.  [/quote]

Why would that matter since college GPA is not part of their calculation?[/quote]

Because you get what you actually pay for.  High quality education that isn't watered down garbage because generations of kids who've gotten participation trophies and who were protected by helicopter parents can't handle the fact that they're not A studies.  Schools like Hopkins don't dumb down materials so you can get watered down As. [/quote]
Not sure how what letters you you throw on transcripts affects the quality of education received. You can teach the same material, administer the exact same exams, and then just adjust how many of each letter you wish to assign. A more useful metric is input (e.g., students, cash) quality.[/quote]

USNWR doesn't measure whether you get what you pay for.  Quality of teaching (one measure of getting what you pay for) and Value for Money are separate rankings that don't get as much focus.  If anything, USNWR gives incentives for schools to be easier, since that makes graduation rates higher.  Have you ever looked at what happened to graduation rates once it became clear that it was being measured?  They went through the roof.  If you look at college GPAs, same thing.  40+ years of uninterrupted grade inflation.  There is limited data on Hopkins on Gradeinflation.com, but even there, it shows average GPA going from 3.23 in 2005 to 3.38 in 2015.  [/quote]

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