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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stanford used to impress me, especially for STEM. Not anymore. When a school gives out grades like this in almost every course

http://txti.es/stanford-grades-2020/images

and front ends it with holistic admission, diversity etc, you can't tell how good any student with a Stanford degree is anymore. I'm sure this is going on at Harvard and Yale too.

Now it's the flagship publics and a few hard to get into privates like [b]Caltech[/b], [b]MIT[/b],JHU, Princeton, Chicago where students have to really work hard to get A's that impress me.

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Lol, Caltech and MIT have grade inflation. They're rigorous, but As are not hard to come by.  MIT athletes have the highest GPA of any DIII program in 2022: "The sixth-ranked men's program finished the fall semester with a 3.82 GPA (on a 4.0 scale) to top all Division III teams followed by Williams (3.79), Johns Hopkins (3.76), Pomona-Pitzer (3.74), and Wash U (3.73)." And yes, this is recalculated from the MIT 5.0 scale.

Caltech in 2018- "The men's team pulled together an outstanding 3.63 GPA, once again good for the third-best cumulative GPA in Division III trailing only MIT (3.78) and Macalester College (3.71)."

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