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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]yes he's is completely fine taking tests in school and now that he's in college he literally has a 4.0. So no I do not think it's the "inflated" grading at our high school. I have no evidence to support your argument. Do you?[/quote]

Anecdotal evidence only.  College grades are inflated too.  Most people in higher education are aware of this. Outside of killer CS and engineering and pre-med programs, [b]the expectation is all As.[/b]

Personally, n =1, I recently completed a bachelor's degree at UMCP in the social sciences.  I'm a middle aged career switcher.

My GPA on graduation was 3.9.  I put almost no effort into that degree. Spent a couple hours a week at most writing discussion board BS. Did one group project. Took tests that I didn't study for and scored 99%+   Didn't buy the books for most classes.

3.9. Entirely new field for me. No effort.  State flagship university.

My first undergrad degree in the 80s netted me a 3.2 or 3.2, at a different state flagship. [b] So much harder[/b][/quote]

This is not true in my experience.  I am a prof in the social sciences and have two kids in college (1 at UVA and 1 W&M)--both kids are smart, working really hard and getting mainly Bs (and even Cs here and there!) in social sciences--and only rarely an A.  I see the work they are producing and it blows me away--the standards have gone FAR up in recent decades for what is required.  They are writing research papers with dozens of peer-reviewed empirical sources.  Undergrads are learning stats that usually grad students are.  It's not unusual for an undergrad political science, psychology or econ student to have to pick up R and GIS.
The idea that these are fluff majors giving out all A's is inaccurate--the selective schools are getting more and more competitive and the students are doing more complex things.  Actually meet them, look at their work and tell me it's even remotely compatible to what we did as undergrads back then (and I was a STEM undergrad!).  Go to an undergrad research conference in the social sciences and see what they are all doing now.  This is in the selective schools of course--I'm not as experienced with less selective schools.[/quote]

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