Poll suggests grade inflation
Results show median GPA of 3.6-3.7
Yale may have escaped the scrutiny faced by its peer institutions regarding grade inflation, but a recent poll conducted by the News suggests University transcripts have not been immune to the phenomenon.
Unlike Princeton and Harvard, which release data on grade distribution annually, Yale has not done so for 25 years. But an online survey of graduates from the Class of 2006, conducted by the News last week, suggests that the median grade-point average at graduation fell between 3.6 and 3.7 last year. Less than 5 percent of the 201 respondents to the poll reported a GPA lower than...
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