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Originally Posted by tnff
Some recent posts have lamented the fact they have less that 3.0 GPA and that they are failing. So I'm wondering how much grade inflation has occurred over the years and how scoring has changed.
When I graduated, I had a 2.97 GPA and thought I'd done pretty good. I also had only a 68 on my GRE. Yet those were good enough to get me into grad school and what has for the most part been a pretty good science career.
Yet now days those kinds of scores send people into panic. Even my own organization's HR section doesn't want to look at GPAs under 3 anymore and doesn't consider them capable of doing the work (though looking at the workforce I manage, I can't make any correlation between performance and GPA).
So I guess what I'm asking is have college grades and ACTs scores become so inflated that less than 3 is now essentially failing? (Yes, I know grad school was that way even when I attended, but this is undergrad)
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I looked at studies that show the % of A's given at US universities climbed from about 15% of the grades in the 60's to about 45% now. The biggest culprits have been private universities who give grades as a benefit of attending...Duke University had the highest grade inflation of any university over 40 years but they were by no means alone.
When I attended Engineering College at a well known public university, my professor said he would only give no more than 20% of the class a grade above a D because that class was a prerequisite and they weren't taking more than 20% of those attending into that degree program and you needed a minimum of a C to take the next class...and that's exactly what he did. I doubt they do such things now.
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