[Cshelton]

Some schools, like The University of Colorado's Leeds School of Business, have taken aggressive measures in the past to fight grade inflation.

They implemented a "hard average" at each grade level. So freshmen business course, the average had to be a C-. Soph: C, Jr: C+, Sr: B-.

It certainly achieved the goal for the school, as a whole, to fight grade inflation... but..

For students, it was very important to be above the mean... otherwise your grade would typically get moved down. Which isn't the worst, since they compared it to competition in the job world... but hard to say that when students are paying an obscene amount of money to attend.

The other challenge was the smaller courses, with ~10-15 students... very difficult to get an A+ in those courses as you had to be the top 1-3 in the class.

I think they have since abandoned this grade inflation policy..

But yes, GPA is basically irrelevant now in comparing across schools...

[anm89]

Yeah, I would actively avoid going to a school like this. This sounds like a race to the bottom. Or at least like a race to a C-