Colleges Known for Grade Deflation and "Weeding Out"

[nysegop]

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Let's compile a list of colleges that are known for grade deflation and/or "weeding out" premedical students.

Grade Deflation = Most Recent Average GPA <=2.9
Weeding Out = More ambiguous, based on reputation and rumor.


List:
Purdue University--West Lafayette (Grade deflation)
University of California--Riverside (Grade deflation)
Clarion (Grade deflation)
Coastal Carolina University (Grade deflation)
Indiana University (Weeding out)
Louisiana State University (Grade deflation)
Rice University (Grade deflation, weeding out) [Courtesy of goofball]
University of Chicago (Grade deflation, weeding out) [Courtesy of getdown]

 

[goofball]

Rice University: Both
Cornell University: Grade Deflation

 

[mmmcdowe]

http://www.gradeinflation.com/

Table on the bottom has the average GPA of each school each year. FWIW Cornell is not <2.9. Nor Rice, unless it dropped down again.

 

[getdown]

university of chicago definitely

 

[nysegop]

university of chicago definitely

Grade deflation or weeding out? Or both?

 

[getdown]

Grade deflation or weeding out? Or both?

definitely both

 

[californicati0n]

University of Chicago: "the place where fun comes to die"