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by seanmcdirmid 3683 days ago
Grade inflation is a problem for many state American universities, at least. Havard also is a private university where grade inflation has been highlighted as a real problem. See:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2013/12/...

I haven't heard of any universities recently where the problem is instead grade deflation, any links to share?
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neil1 3683 days ago
Reed is a wonderful example of a school with almost no grade inflation. In the last 30 years only 11 students have had perfect GPAs.

See: https://www.reed.edu/registrar/pdfs/grades.pdf

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madengr 3683 days ago
No, but in engineering the flunk-out rate is near 70%, or at least it was 25 years ago when I was a student. I don't think there is grade inflation going on there.

I only witnessed cheating twice; Chinese and Indians. In general though, the Asians worked their asses off; 1st generation immigrants "off the boat". Very tough competition.

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