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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We also wanted to avoid pressure cookers, so nudged kids away from Carnegie Mellon, Chicago, Cornell, MIT, Reed, Swarthmore. Also, to a lesser extent, Penn. If they had been drawn to those schools, we would have talked more, but there were plenty of other schools that were more appealing to them anyway.[/quote]

All these schools have severe grade deflation.  Are they different from other schools in essence?  I doubt it Ochem at Cornell is taught differently from at Dartmouth.

Once they inflate the grade by a level up (B to A), all the pressure gone.[/quote]

I have had two kids at two different schools above, one premed and one engineering ‘24 and ‘27. We have very close family friend at Penn, premed BioEng ‘27. The kids all
compare medians, profs, peer support .  These schools do not have deflation and certainly not severe. The medians at all three are around a B to B+ for most intro tupe classes(physics, multivariable
Calc, gen chem, cell bio and yes Ochem. Some stem classes  medians are set to a B+/A- border especially  biochem and other upper levels. They work hard to get A- or higher range and sometimes they have had to accept being below the median but as that is a B it is fine. They all agree C grades are not too common and the ones who get them truly are not using their resources or coming to lecture/recitation. They all want A- and A of course especially premeds chasing top tier schools or those seeking top phD. Deans and department chairs give estimates of average gpas and they are 3.65-3.7sh overall at graduation for the stem majors. Hardly deflated. [/quote]

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