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nkassis on Oct 29, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Grade Inflation at American Colleges and Universit...

I guess, the main issue is that if half the colleges increase grades, the other half looks bad. Maybe a new measure should exist, like your GPA relative to the school average.

sp332 on Oct 29, 2010 | [–]

On a transcript, some schools put the average score of all students in each class, right next to the score that student got for the class.

grhino on Oct 29, 2010 | [–]

For some schools, average GPA can vary widely with major as well.

nkassis on Oct 29, 2010 | [–]

Yep, maybe it should just be within your major, last 5 years or something similar.

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