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[coquettishbrit]

according to the paper, this is the ranking of --edit-- grade inflation

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[chipi_lobo]

I cannot comprehend the nature of this post

[jonlen2000]

is that a ranking of percent increase in tuition over some period?

if it is caltech should be moving up the ranks pretty quickly over the past couple years

[coquettishbrit]

nah it's the gpa used to determine grade inflation...hah everyone is slightly mad that they have steep bell curves here...oops i realize i left off the "grade" part of inflation haha

[jlang222]

are you kidding? we have grade deflation here. the administration actually announced the policy a few years ago and there's a defined limit on the amount of A's, B's, etc. in classes. only 35% of each class, at most, can get an A. and other schools were supposed to follow suit but didn't. so yea, no grade inflation here.

[coquettishbrit]

you should complain to the idiot at duke who came up with these stats =)

[penispotentiary]

Well, there isn't a categorical way to determine what is or what isn't grade inflation, so saying that 35% is the upper limit for A's is not enough to conclude that your school has inflation OR deflation. I think that you have to look outside the framework of your school only to definitively assess this question.

[jlang222]

Yea, I agree with what you're saying, but I still don't think it's probably very accurate if our school has an actual policy of grade deflation. I don't know. It's frustrating to hear that when I know people who legitimately get A's and their grades are rounded down to B's because of the grade deflation policy. I'm just ranting though.

[jonlen2000]

caltech average gpa: 2.9

[penispotentiary]

uchicago: 2.90 also

[penispotentiary]

Isn't anyone wondering whence the data for these rankings originate? I mean, most people do not even know the quantitative amount of inflation at their own schools, so it seems implausible that an outsider should have access to the data. As far as I'm concerned, this kid at Duke could be making the data up, as there is no indication of the empirical nature of his "study."

[coquettishbrit]

well it IS a dukie ;)