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Reposting what I wrote in another thread about Sherman's "4.0"
Now that is something I don't believe. Even if it was an arts degree. Although to his credit (he went to Stanford right?) I have read articles about Harvard undergrad having an A to A- curve, even still I would like to see some investigation into this.
I've spent a lot of time in the past looking at the GPA's of the top students in the country (Canada, and these students were competition for my current program), and even amongst them, it is almost unheard of to go above a 3.95 cumulative GPA. And where the great majority of those near-perfect GPA's come from are the math/engineering fields where there is more often than not one right answer on an exam. In an arts program you are far more susceptible to a lesser grade just based on differing subjective views on the subject matter.
Now that is something I don't believe. Even if it was an arts degree. Although to his credit (he went to Stanford right?) I have read articles about Harvard undergrad having an A to A- curve, even still I would like to see some investigation into this.
I've spent a lot of time in the past looking at the GPA's of the top students in the country (Canada, and these students were competition for my current program), and even amongst them, it is almost unheard of to go above a 3.95 cumulative GPA. And where the great majority of those near-perfect GPA's come from are the math/engineering fields where there is more often than not one right answer on an exam. In an arts program you are far more susceptible to a lesser grade just based on differing subjective views on the subject matter.