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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On the contrary, I think 15:46's post was dead on.  I can tell you from experience at both ncs and sta that some teachers are notoriously tough graders (doesn't necessarily mean that they aren't also excellent teachers) but it can adversely affect GPA. [/quote]

I fully agree with this. There has been a great deal of grade inflation in higher education and in K-12 in the last two decades. However much one might deplore it, there is a good reason for this.  Grade inflation is entirely rational for any individual or for any single school --- if you do not inflate grades you are relying on whoever is evaluating a transcript to be well informed about a particular schools grading policy and to make the effort to make appropriate adjustments. That will sometimes happen, and sometimes not.   At the university where I teach the teaching awards, which depend on student votes, are routinely won by faculty who award 100% A's to students in their classes.  If universities are not organized enough to bother putting in mechanisms in place to take into account such self-motivated grade inflation in plain sight, how much do you want to trust their ability to make fine adjustments for grade inflation in admissions?[/quote]

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