Last 10 years or so, average GPA at Ivy-plus schools has jumped 0.1-0.2 or more.
Yet anther reason to attend ivy-level schools - they do hand out handsome GPAs
Noted jump is from Princeton which still enjoys a "GPA deflation" rep (for good or bad) but actually it no longer is doing the deflation. Same for UChicago to some extent.
But overall MIT, Princeton and Cornell still have lower GPAs than others
Brown, Stanford, Harvard are on the high end.
College Average GPA
Brown University 3.61 --> now 3.7-3.75
Columbia University 3.42 --> Now ~3.55 (Note Columbia gives A+ 4.33 point in GPA calculation)
Cornell University 3.36 --> Now more like 3.48-3.52
Dartmouth College 3.42 --> At least 3.6
Harvard University 3.45 --> Average is around 3.65 these days
Princeton University 3.28 --> Huge lie now. No longer has GPA deflation. Average is now like 3.45+
Yale University 3.51 -->Average 3.6+
Stanford University 3.55 -->Average is approaching 3.7
Duke University 3.44 -->Average is approaching 3.6
MIT 3.27 ->Average is now 4.35-4.45 (MIT uses 5-point system. Full GPA is 5.0/5.0)
