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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love w&m - didn’t go there but many in my family did (I was a lazy HS student).  One of the main cons I hear about it, though, is that the work is hard and [b]grading is tough[/b].  I also hear that undergrad GPA a is very important for med school.  That’s potentially a bad combination.  So I would be concerned about pre med at W&M for that reason alone.  [/quote]

That's the reputation, but the undergrad GPA is no different than schools like UVA and has had very significant grade inflation. The average undergrad GPA was a 3.33 in 2014 (compared to a 3.32 at UVA in 2013), and I'm sure it's higher now.

https://www.gradeinflation.com/Williamandmary.html
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2014! Utterly irrelevant![/quote]

Average Spring 2021 GPA is 3.56 according to this report.  In general, college average GPAs just keep going higher and higher.

https://www.wm.edu/offices/fsl/documents/scholarship/spring-2021-grade-report-final.pdf

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I really think this is a function of the more 'narrow' bands of selection in colleges today than in previous years.  When you have a class of kids who come in mainly between 4.0-4.5 and  SATs in the 1400s, there's just not as many obvious ways to give low grades if they do the work.   And then if you're at another school where there's kids who top out at 3.8 and SATs range in the 1200s, the kids in that group who do the work will get the A.

I think we'd have wider ranges of grades in places where there wider ranges of abilities/work habits.  I don't think this is the only factor, but I think it's an important one.
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