Anonymous wrote:So what if they do? Nobody cares about your gpa, they only care that you graduated.

Grad schools care.

So what if they do? Nobody cares about your gpa, they only care that you graduated.

Anonymous wrote:Does UPenn grade inflate like Harvard, Yale, etc... if so, even in engineering?

- If you somehow managed to find out that “Harvard, Yale, etc…” “grade inflate” — how is it that you haven’t been able to use those same sources of information to get information on U Penn? If your source of information is DCUM, then how is it that you haven’t understood that the information may not be anything close to accurate? So, you’re trolling. Why? What does it get you? Why is it so difficult for you to get that excellent, motivated students, for the most part, continue to be excellent, motivated students— who are capable of meeting the requirements set by their professors? That’s not grade inflation.

Anonymous wrote:Grading means sorting and ranking the group before you. If everyone gets an A that is not grading. It's fake.

If you are teaching the einsteins and newtons of the age, the cream of the crop naturally rise to the top.

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Anonymous wrote:Ivies take the top couple percent of kids--I don't think it's grade inflation that they will mainly earn As. More like appropriate benchmarking. So I think this is kind of a dumb question.

This.

Not this. Yale, for example, allows last minute withdrawal from any course. Well utilized to protect gpa. Survivorship bias anyone?

Lol. Last minute? Really?

Anonymous wrote:Based on inputs above it sounds like Penn, Cornell, and Princeton don't inflate (actually deflate relative to the other Ivies). Would that be a correct conclusion to draw?

Cornell inflates like a sex doll in non-STEM majors.

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Anonymous wrote:I know someone in UPenn engineering and they do not grade inflate. They do use a curve, however. I don't think it's uncommon to get below 50% on tests.

+1 I have a kid in engineering there, and it's no joke. Definitely no grade inflation. The PP is correct: super low grades on tests are common, with a curve in some (but not all) classes at the end of the semester. Many students get Cs and below as final grades.

Have a freshman in Engineering at Penn. Was very happy with a 75 on an exam recently. Says school is really hard. Seems very happy, so not concerned. Not sure about final grades, but not expecting any inflation.

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Anonymous wrote:Ivies take the top couple percent of kids--I don't think it's grade inflation that they will mainly earn As. More like appropriate benchmarking. So I think this is kind of a dumb question.

This.

Not this. Yale, for example, allows last minute withdrawal from any course. Well utilized to protect gpa. Survivorship bias anyone?

Anonymous wrote:Ivies take the top couple percent of kids--I don't think it's grade inflation that they will mainly earn As. More like appropriate benchmarking. So I think this is kind of a dumb question.

This.

I was in the engineering school at UPenn in the early 2000s and they did NOT grade inflate. It was hard. It was not unheard of to get 40s and 50s, and for that to be the average score.

Anonymous wrote:Princeton tried to tamp down on grade inflation, but there was such a backlash that they went back to inflating.

Princeton doesn’t grade inflate, plenty of C curves in stem classes there. It ‘so always been that way.

Anonymous wrote:Princeton tried to tamp down on grade inflation, but there was such a backlash that they went back to inflating.

Even the Engineering school?

Princeton tried to tamp down on grade inflation, but there was such a backlash that they went back to inflating.

Based on inputs above it sounds like Penn, Cornell, and Princeton don't inflate (actually deflate relative to the other Ivies). Would that be a correct conclusion to draw?

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Anonymous wrote:Christ they all do it. If you want real grades go to UChicago.

This. Plus Johns Hopkins, MIT, and CalTech. If they don't drive you crazy from stress and competition first.

My kid is at Chicago awaiting his first quarter grades. No idea what they will be like but I have not gotten a sense from him that kids are hyper competitive about grades at all....think they are all self-motivated.