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A 3.5 is easy. I got a a 3.82 at my school of engineering, while working, and commuting for about 4 hours per day. I didn't really even try that hard in school.

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This comment doesn't really add anything to the discussion especially because colleges have different grading scales and culture of grade inflation or deflation. For example in mine most GPAs hovered around 3.5. A 3.8 would be rare.

Grade inflation is a problem for many state American universities, at least. Havard also is a private university where grade inflation has been highlighted as a real problem. See:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2013/12/...

I haven't heard of any universities recently where the problem is instead grade deflation, any links to share?

No, but in engineering the flunk-out rate is near 70%, or at least it was 25 years ago when I was a student. I don't think there is grade inflation going on there.

I only witnessed cheating twice; Chinese and Indians. In general though, the Asians worked their asses off; 1st generation immigrants "off the boat". Very tough competition.

Reed is a wonderful example of a school with almost no grade inflation. In the last 30 years only 11 students have had perfect GPAs.

See: https://www.reed.edu/registrar/pdfs/grades.pdf

Congrats, you're my first down vote. Seriously though, here you either add to the conversation or perish. Bragging about your GPA is not only childish, but completely irrelevant to prett much everything....in life.

It was easy for you, and that's great. Just because it was easy for you doesn't mean it would be easy for most people in the program.

Your humble brag is not that humble. Try again.

I imagine it's a lot tougher if English is not your native language.

I bet if you really tried, you could have shaved that commute down a little.~

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