msar: paper book edition (2012-2013 or something like that)

[liveoak]

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so, like, i was looking at the "GPA's by applicant/accepted" graph and was stunned by the amount of 4.0's out there.

It's a line graph that starts at 2.0 and ends at 4.0. You'd think the total applicants line would drop after 3.8 or so (a great GPA) but it keeps going higher. It ends up leveling off at 3.9 or so, but not by much. Point being, there are more much more 4.0 applicants than 3.7.

 

[blizzah]

28,530 applied with 3.8-4.0 GPA
30,090 applied with 3.6-3.79 GPA


It's mostly self-selection

 

[liveoak]

28,530 applied with 3.8-4.0 GPA
30,090 applied with 3.6-3.79 GPA


It's mostly self-selection

cool.thx for the hard #'s. That's a ton of amazing GPA's. <===LOVE this emoticon btw

 

[pefro123]

these numbers show the grade inflation that has occurred in the US university system over the past several decades