Ivy League Inflated GPA vs UC GPA

Ivy League GPA's are inflated. Doing a 3.8 at an Ivy Leauge is not that difficult. A lot of students can achieve this.
Getting a 3.8 at UCLA or Berkeley is a lot more difficult. A lot of Professors grade on curves, thus only top 10% of the class can get an A. They don't do this at Ivy Leagues.

Does the industry differentiate this? Do they know that a 3.0 at UC is worth more than a 3.5 at an Ivy League?

I am just looking at the statistics , the median GPA at Harvard is 3.6

At most UC is around 3.2. That means only 10-15% of students can achieve anything above a 3.7.

 

Admissions officer will tell you that employers adjust for UC deflation: the truth is we don't. When I'm flipping through resumes, I don't have a rubric telling me which schools inflate or deflate. Don't care enough to track, and everyone's the same on my book. Cold hard truth.

 

Agreed - no one has a list of inflators/deflators. Maybe in the back of my mind I'll have some idea of which schools are notorious one way or the other but that's about it.

One way to offset the deflation at your school is to include stuff on your resume indicating that you're in the top x% of your class (latin honors, honor societies, Beta Gamma Sigma, Dean's list, etc.)

 

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